Ever since antiquity the two Homeric poems the Iliad and the Odyssey have been considered to
be masterpieces and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been
immense. In this volume an international team of scholars discusses the poems their background
and composition and most originally their subsequent reception down to the present day. Each
chapter communicates the best of contemporary scholarship and offers new critical insights of
its own and closes with a guide to further reading on the topic.
