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== References == {{Reflist}} === Bibliography === * {{cite book |editor-last=Finkelberg |editor-first=Margalit |editor-link=Margalit Finkelberg |title=The Homer Encyclopedia |date=2012 |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |isbn=9781405177689 |doi=10.1002/9781444350302}} * {{cite book |editor-last=Fowler |editor-first=Robert |editor-link=Robert Fowler (academic) |title=The Cambridge Companion to Homer |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-521-01246-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_i1h6 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite book |last=Graziosi |first=Barbara |author-link=Barbara Graziosi |title=Inventing Homer: The Early Perception of Epic |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |series=Cambridge Classical Studies |date=2002 |isbn=978-0521809665 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCHsh9QWzLYC}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Ian |editor1-link=Ian Morris (historian) |editor2-last=Powell |editor2-first=Barry B. |editor2-link=Barry B. Powell |date=1997 |title=A New Companion to Homer |location=Leiden |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |isbn=978-90-04-09989-0}} === Editions === ;Texts in Homeric Greek * [[Demetrius Chalcondyles]] ''editio princeps'', Florence, 1488 * the [[Aldine editions]] (1504 and 1517) * 1st ed. with comments, [[Jacob Micyllus|Micyllus]] and [[Joachim Camerarius|Camerarius]], Basel, 1535, 1541 (improved text), 1551 (incl. the [[Batrachomyomachia]]) * Th. Ridel, Strasbourg, c. 1572, 1588 and 1592. * Wolf (Halle, 1794–1795; Leipzig, 1804 1807) * Spitzner (Gotha, 1832–1836) * Bekker (Berlin, 1843; Bonn, 1858) * La Roche (''Odyssey'', 1867–1868; ''Iliad'', 1873–1876, both at Leipzig) * Ludwich (''Odyssey'', Leipzig, 1889–1891; ''Iliad'', 2 vols, 1901 and 1907) * W. Leaf (''Iliad'', London, 1886–1888; 2nd ed. 1900–1902) * [[William Walter Merry]] and [[James Riddell (scholar)|James Riddell]] (''Odyssey'' i–xii, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1886) * [[David Monro (scholar)|Monro, D. B.]] (''Odyssey'' xiii–xxiv with appendices, Oxford, 1901) * Monro, D. B. and [[Thomas William Allen|Allen, T. W.]] (''Iliad''), and Allen (''Odyssey'', 1908, Oxford) * D. B. Monro and T. W. Allen 1917–1920, ''Homeri Opera'' (5 volumes: ''Iliad''=3rd edition, ''Odyssey''=2nd edition), Oxford, {{ISBN|0-19-814528-4|0-19-814529-2|0-19-814531-4|0-19-814532-2|0-19-814534-9}} * H. van Thiel 1991, ''Homeri Odyssea'', Hildesheim, {{ISBN|3-487-09458-4}}, 1996, ''Homeri Ilias'', Hildesheim, {{ISBN|3-487-09459-2}} * P. von der Mühll 1993, ''Homeri Odyssea'', Munich/Leipzig, {{ISBN|3-598-71432-7}} * [[Martin Litchfield West|M. L. West]] 1998–2000, ''Homeri Ilias'' (2 volumes), Munich/Leipzig, {{ISBN|3-598-71431-9|3-598-71435-1}} * M. L. West 2017, ''Homerus Odyssea'', Berlin/Boston, {{ISBN|3-11-042539-4}} === Interlinear translations === * ''The Iliad of Homer a Parsed Interlinear'', Handheldclassics.com (2008) Text, {{ISBN|978-1-60725-298-6}} === English translations === {{Main|English translations of Homer}} This is a partial list of translations into English of Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'': * [[Robert Fitzgerald]] (1910–1985) ** ''The Iliad'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004) {{ISBN|0-374-52905-1}} ** ''The Odyssey'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998) {{ISBN|0-374-52574-9}} * [[Robert Fagles]] (1933–2008) ** ''The Iliad'', Penguin Classics (1998) {{ISBN|0-14-027536-3}} ** ''The Odyssey'', Penguin Classics (1999) {{ISBN|0-14-026886-3}} * [[Stanley Lombardo]] (b. 1943) ** ''Iliad'', [[Hackett Publishing Company]] (1997) {{ISBN|0-87220-352-2}} ** ''Odyssey'', [[Hackett Publishing Company]] (2000) {{ISBN|0-87220-484-7}} ** ''Iliad'', (Audiobook) Parmenides (2006) {{ISBN|1-930972-08-3}} ** ''Odyssey'', (Audiobook) Parmenides (2006) {{ISBN|1-930972-06-7}} ** ''The Essential Homer'', (Audiobook) Parmenides (2006) {{ISBN|1-930972-12-1}} ** ''The Essential Iliad'', (Audiobook) Parmenides (2006) {{ISBN|1-930972-10-5}} * [[Barry B. Powell]] (b. 1942) ** ''Iliad'', Oxford University Press (2013) {{ISBN|978-0-19-932610-5}} ** ''Odyssey'', Oxford University PressI (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-19-936031-4}} ** ''Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: The Essential Books'', Oxford University Press (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-19-939407-4}} * [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]] (1835–1902) ** ''The Iliad'', Red and Black Publishers (2008) {{ISBN|978-1-934941-04-1}} ** ''The Odyssey'', Red and Black Publishers (2008) {{ISBN|978-1-934941-05-8}} * [[Emily Wilson (classicist)|Emily Wilson]] (b. 1971) ** ''The Odyssey'', W. W. Norton (2017) {{ISBN|978-0-393-08905-9}} ** ''The Iliad'', W. W. Norton (2023) {{ISBN|9781324001805}} === General works on Homer === * {{cite book |first=Pierre |last=Carlier |title=Homère |language=fr |publisher=[[Fayard|Les éditions Fayard]] |location=Paris |date=1999 |isbn=978-2-213-60381-0}} * {{cite book |first=Jacqueline |last=de Romilly |author-link=Jacqueline de Romilly |title=Homère |location=Paris |publisher=[[Presses Universitaires de France]] |edition=5th |date=2005 |isbn=978-2-13-054830-0}} * {{cite book |first1=J. |last1=Latacz |author-link=Joachim Latacz |translator1-first=Kevin |translator1-last=Windle |translator2-first=Rosh |translator2-last=Ireland |date=2004 |title=Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery |location=Oxford |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-926308-0}} In German, 5th updated and expanded edition, Leipzig, 2005. In Spanish, 2003 {{ISBN|84-233-3487-2}}. In modern Greek, 2005 {{ISBN|960-16-1557-1}} * {{cite EB1911 |last=Monro |first=David Binning |author-link=David Monro (scholar) |wstitle=Homer |volume=12 |pages=626–639}} * {{cite book |first=Barry B. |last=Powell |author-link=Barry B. Powell |date=2007 |title=Homer |edition=2nd |location=Malden, Massachusetts; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Victoria |publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell]] |isbn=978-1-4051-5325-6}} * {{cite book |first=Pierre |last=Vidal-Naquet |author-link=Pierre Vidal-Naquet |title=Le monde d'Homère |language=fr |location=Paris |publisher=[[Editis|Perrin]] |date=2000 |isbn=978-2-262-01181-9}} * {{cite book |first1=Alan J. B. |last1=Wace |author1-link=Alan Wace |author2=F. H. Stubbings |date=1962 |title=A Companion to Homer |location=London |isbn=978-0-333-07113-7 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]]}} === Influential readings and interpretations === * {{cite book |first=Erich |last=Auerbach |author-link=Erich Auerbach |date=1953 |title=Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature |location=Princeton |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |chapter=Chapter 1 |isbn=978-0-691-11336-4 |title-link=Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature |ref=none}} (orig. publ. in German, 1946, Bern) * {{cite book |first=Irene J. F. |last=de Jong |date=2004 |title=Narrators and Focalizers: the Presentation of the Story in the Iliad |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bristol Classical Press]] |isbn=978-1-85399-658-0}} * {{cite book |first=Mark W. |last=Edwards |date=1987 |title=Homer, Poet of the Iliad |location=Baltimore |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8018-3329-8}} * {{cite book |first=Bernard |last=Fenik |date=1974 |title=Studies in the Odyssey |location=Wiesbaden |publisher=Steiner |series=Hermes, Einzelschriften 30}} * {{cite book |last=Finley |first=Moses |author-link=Moses Finley |title=The World of Odysseus |publisher=[[The New York Review of Books]] |location=New York |date=2002 |isbn=978-1-59017-017-5}} * {{cite book |first=Gregory |last=Nagy |author-link=Gregory Nagy |title=The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |location=Baltimore; London |date=1979}} * {{cite book |last=Nagy |first=Gregory |title=Homer: the Preclassic |date=2010 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=978-0-520-95024-5}} * Reece, Steve; ''The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene'', Ann Arbor: [[University of Michigan Press]], 1993 === Commentaries === * ''Iliad'': ** P.V. Jones (ed.) 2003, ''Homer's Iliad. A Commentary on Three Translations'', London {{ISBN|1-85399-657-2}} ** [[Geoffrey Kirk|G. S. Kirk]] (gen. ed.) 1985–1993, ''The Iliad: A Commentary'' (6 volumes), Cambridge {{ISBN|0-521-28171-7|0-521-28172-5|0-521-28173-3|0-521-28174-1|0-521-31208-6|0-521-31209-4}} ** [[Joachim Latacz]] (gen. ed.) 2002, ''Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar. Auf der Grundlage der Ausgabe von Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868–1913)'' (6 volumes published so far, of an estimated 15), Munich/Leipzig {{ISBN|3-598-74307-6}}, {{ISBN|3-598-74304-1}} ** N. Postlethwaite (ed.) 2000, ''Homer's Iliad: A Commentary on the Translation of Richmond Lattimore'', Exeter {{ISBN|0-85989-684-6}} ** M. W. Willcock (ed.) 1976, ''A Companion to the Iliad'', Chicago {{ISBN|0-226-89855-5}} * ''Odyssey'': ** A. Heubeck (gen. ed.) 1990–1993, ''A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey'' (3 volumes; orig. publ. 1981–1987 in Italian), Oxford {{ISBN|0-19-814747-3}}, {{ISBN|0-19-872144-7}}, {{ISBN|0-19-814953-0}} ** P. Jones (ed.) 1988, ''Homer's Odyssey: A Commentary based on the English Translation of Richmond Lattimore'', Bristol {{ISBN|1-85399-038-8}} ** I. J. F. de Jong (ed.) 2001, ''A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey'', Cambridge {{ISBN|0-521-46844-2}} === Dating the Homeric poems === * {{cite book |first=Richard |last=Janko |date=1982 |title=Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction |series=Cambridge Classical Studies |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-23869-4}}
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