The Iliad and the Odyssey as great literature / W. McLeod -- On recovering Homer / Robert Zaslavsky -- Focusing on Homeric values / J. Frank Papovich -- Homeric epic and the social order / Michael N. Nagler -- Homeric icons / Norman Austin -- The concept of the hero / John E. Rexine -- Homer in art / Howard Clarke -- Teaching Homer in honors composition / George D. Economou -- Teaching Homer as history / Ronald P. Legon -- Teaching the Iliad in a literatrue survey course / Mitzi M. Brunsdale -- Homer as the door to critical theory / Sally MacEwen -- What the Iliad might be like / George E. Dimock -- Actively engaging students with Homer's poetry / Barbara Apstein -- The study question: an avenue to understanding Homer / Elizabeth A. Fisher -- Odysseus: a matter of identity / Robert L. Tener -- Teaching Homer from the top down: the telemachy / William C. Scott -- The Aristotelian unity of Odysseus's wanderings / Rick M. Newton
Summary
A retelling of Homer's account of the Trojan War, and of the story of Odysseus' adventures on his homeward voyage
