About the Author

Frederick Ahl is Professor of Classics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He is the author of a number of books, including Lucan: An Introduction, Seneca: Three Tragedies, and Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. Hanna Roisman is Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities and Professor of Classics at Colby College. Hanna has published numerous journal articles and book chapters focusing on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's didactic epics, Greek Elegy, the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Classics and Contemporary Film and TV. She is the author of Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy, Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus, Sophocles: Philoctetes, and many other titles.

Reviews

"Offers a lively and detailed reading of Homer's 'The Odyssey', episode by episode, with particular attention paid to the manipulative power of its language and Homer's skill in using that power."-The Midwest Book Review "This is the most stimulating and enjoyable book about Homer that I have read in many years. It is attentive to all the relevant issues and bibliography, methodologically sound, clearly and carefully argued, but also boldly original. Along the way, Ahl and Roisman offer many pleasures and fresh insights. Well brought out are the muse's narrative etiquette and mythopoeic agility, the resonance of patterns and symbols, wordplay, pathos, and humor."-Jeffrey Henderson