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Professor Barbara Graziosi teaches Classics at Durham University. She is the author of Inventing Homer (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and together with Johannes Haubold she wrote Homer: The Resonance of Epic (Duckworth, 2005), and completed a commentary on Iliad 6 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Together with Emily Greenwood she edited Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Oxford University Press, 2007), and she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009), along with George Boys-Stones and Phiroze Vasunia.
`Graziosis analyses of the literary, linguistic, historical, cultural, and archaeological issues surrounding the poems are remarkable feats of compression, succinct yet richly detailed.' Kirkus `This highly readable, svelte volume offers a lucid and learned introduction that is characteristically attuned to key moments in the afterlife of the Iliad and Odyssey. Not only do we get a sensitive and fresh survey of the poems themselves and their ancient contexts (including roots in oral tradition, relationships with Near Eastern literature, and the evidence for a Trojan War). She also renews our awareness of the later impact of this earliest Greek literature, from Vergil to Primo Levi. Rich in detailed readings and packed with hints for further exploration, Graziosi's book provides the most up-to-date and reliable guide to the appreciation of two eternally relevant epics.' Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics, Stanford University
