Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Name: Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey
Price: 87.99 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9781603297103

Lillian E. Doherty

$87.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Modern Language Association of America
20 April 2026

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Folklore, myths & legends; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature

Summary
Details

A guide to teaching the Odyssey through contemporary questions and approaches

Famous for its characters—the clever, unscrupulous Odysseus; the resilient, proud Penelope; and their young son, Telemachus, beginning his own life's journeys—the Odyssey is also well known as a set of fantastic tales and as a reflection of the ethos of Archaic Greece. This volume will help instructors introduce students to topics such as oral epic traditions, the relationship of the Odyssey to the Iliad, and kinship structures. It grapples directly with issues that concern instructors and students today, from the epic's value system and cultural norms to its portrayals of violence, slavery, and misogyny. Essays employ feminism, postcolonialism, and popular culture such as television, games, and comics and address a wide range of classrooms, from world literature courses to high schools and a prison. Readers will also learn about teaching responses to the Odyssey by writers from Dante to contemporary American poets.

This volume contains discussion of Dante's Inferno, Homer's Iliad, Linda Pastan's ""On Re-reading the Odyssey in Middle Age,"" and Theocritus's ""The Cyclops.""

Edited by: Lillian E. Doherty
Imprint: Modern Language Association of America
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781603297103
ISBN 10: 1603297103
Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 20 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active