The two Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have long been considered masterpieces, and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been immense. An international team of experts discusses the poems, their background and composition, and subsequent reception to the present day. Each chapter features contemporary critical insights and closes with a guide to further reading on the topic.

Introduction Robert Fowler Part I. The Poems and their Narrator 1. The Iliad: an unpredictable classic Donald Lateiner  2. The Odyssey and its explorations Michael Silk 3. The storyteller and his audience Ruth Scodel Part II. The Characters 4. The gods in the Homeric epics Emily Kearns 5. Manhood and heroism Michael Clarke 6. Gender and Homeric epic Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin Part III. The Poet's Craft 7. Formulas, metre and type-scenes Matthew Clarke 8. Similes and other likenesses Richard Buxton 9. The speeches Jasper Griffin; Part IV. Text and Context 10. Epic as genre John Miles Foley 11. The epic tradition in Greece Ken Dowden 12. Homer's society Robin Osborne 13. The Homeric question Robert Fowler Part V. Homeric Receptions: 14. Homer and Greek literature Richard Hunter 15. Roman Homer Joseph Farrell 16. Homer and English epic Penelope Wilson 17. Homer and the Romantics Timothy Webb 18. Homer and Ulysses Vanda Zajko 19. Homer: the history of an idea James Porter  20. 'Shards and suckers': contemporary receptions of Homer Lorna Hardwick 21. Homer in English translation George Steiner.

Robert Fowler is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol. He is the author of The Nature of the Early Greek Lyric (University of Toronto Press, 1987). He has also edited Early Greek Mythology Vol 1 (Oxford University Press, 2001).

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