Simon Pulleyn read Classics at Oxford in the 1980s and stayed on to write his doctoral thesis on prayer in Ancient Greek religion. He taught Latin and Greek at Oxford for most of the 1990s, at the end of which he trained as a lawyer. After a longish spell as a solicitor in the City of London, he taught law for a few years before deciding to give himself over to full-time research and writing. He has published numerous articles and reviews in learned journals, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

anyone teaching Odyssey 1 will find the commentary a valuable companion.

• Frontmatter Abbreviations Maps Introduction The Appeal of the Odyssey Structure Style The World of the Odyssey Origins Transmission Metre Dialect and Grammar Text and Translation Commentary Endmatter Bibliography Vocabulary Glossary of Technical Terms General Index Index of Greek Words

Simon Pulleyn read Classics at Oxford in the 1980s and stayed on to write his doctoral thesis on prayer in Ancient Greek religion. He taught Latin and Greek at Oxford for most of the 1990s, at the end of which he trained as a lawyer. After a longish spell as a solicitor in the City of London, he taught law for a few years before deciding to give himself over to full-time research and writing. He has published numerous articles and reviews in learned journals, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

anyone teaching Odyssey 1 will find the commentary a valuable companion.

• Frontmatter Abbreviations Maps Introduction The Appeal of the Odyssey Structure Style The World of the Odyssey Origins Transmission Metre Dialect and Grammar Text and Translation Commentary Endmatter Bibliography Vocabulary Glossary of Technical Terms General Index Index of Greek Words