Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
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Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-8226-3069-2 • Paperback • November 1996 • $72.00 • (£55.00)
Jenny Strauss Clay is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, and the author of The Politics of Olympus.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 The Beginning of the Odyssey
Chapter 5 Odysseus
Chapter 6 Gods and Men
Chapter 7 The Encounter of Odysseus and Athena
Chapter 8 The Double Theodicy of the Odyssey
Chapter 9 Appendix: Demodocus and Homer
Chapter 10 Bibliography
Chapter 11 Index of Sources
Chapter 12 Index of Names and Subjects
It is a pleasure to welcome back into print this corrected reissue of the original 1983 edition. Clay's provocative study guides the reader to useful insights into the complex achievement of the Odyssey, and its value is undiminished . . .
— Religious Studies Review
Jenny Clay's The Wrath of Athena is an acute, original, and subtle reading of the Odyssey . . . I am delighted to see it back in print.
— Charles Segal
. . . invariably vigorous, well-stated, and thoroughly informed . . .
— American Journal Of Philology
Her discussion . . . has much for scholars and teachers, and adds to our understanding of the complexity, ambiguity, and ambivalence in narrative and character in the Oddyssey.
— Classical World