The "Odyssey" in Athens

A study in poetic interaction, The "Odyssey" in Athens explores the ways in which narrative structure and parallels within and between epic poems create or disclose meaning. Erwin F. Cook also broadens the scope of this intertextual approach to include...

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

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.

Peter Wilson:

A stimulating new attempt to explain the genesis of the Odyssey in terms that respond to the social and religious environment of its age.

A remarkable work which places the final text of the Odyssey into a new light.