The story behind the story
Longinus on Homer's sublimity
Erich Auerbach on homeric style
Milman Parry on formulary diction
Simon Goldhill on the proem of the Odyssey
Pierre Vidal-Naquet on Odysseus' return to humanity
Jean-Pierre Vermant on heroic refusal of immortality
Jean Starobinski on the inside and the outside
Froma I. Zeitlin on fidelity
Charles Segal on the episode of the sirens
Helen P. Foley on the "reverse silile" and gender relations
Pietro Pucci on the iliadic lion and the odyssean lion
Sheila Murnaghan on Odysseus' capacity for disguise
From the Book - Updated edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Transition and ritual in Odysseus' return / Charles Segal --
Odysseus and the genus "hero" / Margalit Finkelberg --
The wanderings / S. Douglas Olson --
Internal narrators, female and male / Lillian Eileen Doherty --
Penelope as moral agent / Helene P. Foley --
Rival homecomings / Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman --
Penelope's perspective : character from plot / Nancy Felson-Rubin --
The structures of The Odyssey / Stephen V. Tracy --
Kalypso and the function of Book Five / Bruce Louden --
In the beginning was Proteus / Mark Buchan --
The stakes of the plot / Richard Heitman.