About the Author

Erwin Cook is T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity University.

Reviews

"A remarkable work which places the final text of the Odyssey into a new light."-Journal of Indo-European Studies "A stimulating new attempt to explain the genesis of the Odyssey in terms that respond to the social and religious environment of its age."-Peter Wilson, Classical Review "In a work of perceptive and perceptive and persuasive scholarship, lucidly written and argued, Cook provides an intellectually satisfying guide to the thematic and structural unity of the Odyssey. There is much in this fine book that can be read with profit by both general readers and advanced scholars."-Choice