Course Number: HI448A
Subject: History
Background Sources
- Homer: Oxford Bibliography
- a curated list of scholarship (the Laurier Library may not own everything on this list)
- Graziosi, Barbara. Homer: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- this ebook is limited to one user at a time. If access is blocked, try again later.
- Griffin, Jasper. Homer: the Odyssey. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Myrsiades, Kostas. Reading Homerās Odyssey. Lewisburg, Pennslyvania: Bucknell University Press, 2019.
- Power, Henry. Homerās Odyssey: a Reading Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- SaiĢd, Suzanne, and Ruth Webb. Homer and the Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Course Texts
- Bakker, Egbert J. The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Cohen, Beth. The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homerās Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Dougherty, Carol. The Raft of Odysseus: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homerās Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Gazis, George Alexander. Homer and the Poetics of Hades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Hopman, Marianne Govers. Scylla Myth, Metaphor, Paradox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Malkin, Irad. The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
- McInerney, Jeremy. The Cattle of the Sun Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
- Morris, Ian, and Barry B. Powell. A New Companion to Homer. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
Reception Scholarship
- Dougherty, Carol. Travel and Home in Homerās Odyssey and Contemporary LiteratureāÆ: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019
- Graziosi, Barbara, and Emily Greenwood (Eds.). Homer in the Twentieth Century Between World Literature and the Western Canon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- McConnell, Justine. Black Odysseys: the Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora Since 1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Journal Articles
- Search JSTOR to find full text academic journal articles from a wide variety of disciplines.
- L'AnnƩe Philologique can be searched for classical scholarship since 1924 onward.
- This is an index database (does not contain full text), but it will link to the full text if the Laurier Library owns it. Otherwise, items can be requested from other libraries.
Adaptations
- Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. Toronto: Knopf, 2005.
- Joyce, James, and Jeri Johnson. Ulysses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Kazantzakis, Nikos, Komon. Friar, and Homer. The Odyssey; a Modern Sequel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.
- Spivey, Nigel Jonathan. Songs on Bronze: the Greek Myths Made Real. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Walcott, Derek., and Homer. The Odyssey: a Stage Version. New York: The Noonday Press, 1993.
Video Adaptations
- Akomfrah, John, Lina Gopaul, David Lawson, and Trevor Mathison. The Nine Muses. Brooklyn, New York: [Distributed by] Icarus Films, 2018.
- Clooney, George, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King, Charles Durning, et al. O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000.
- De Liguoro, Giuseppe, et. al. L'odissea. Silent film, 1911
- MeĢlieĢs, Georges. The Mysterious Island (original French title is LāĆ®le de Calypso). Silent film, 1905
Audio and Video Documentaries
- Ancient Greek Heroes: The Odyssey - the Journey Home From Troy. BBC Worldwide Learning, 2004.
- The Odyssey: Invitation to World Literature. Annenberg Learner, 2010.
- The Odyssey. In Our Time.
Images
- Find images of artefacts and paintings from museums and archives
- JSTOR - included at the top of a JSTOR results page
- Google Arts & Culture