Homer: odyssey books xix and xx (softcover)]

In this edition, Richard Rutherford provides not only detailed comment on the action, characteristics and style of the books in question, but also is an extensive introduction, a general survey of the odyssey as a whole. , laying special emphasis on the on the qualities of the second half of the poem. He also attempts to contribute to the literary criticism of the poem on a verbal level. By considering the Poets use of formulae, rhetorical techniques and similes. This reader is intended for readers of the Odyssey at all levels..