Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.
Contents
Odyssey and the western world / George de F. Lord -- Name of Odysseus / G. E. Dimock Jr. -- Homer and Hamlet / Hugh Kenner -- Kazantzakis : Odysseus and the "Cage of freedom" / George Scouffas -- Shakespeare's Ulysses and the problem of value / W. R. Elton -- Fugitive from the ancestral hearth : Tennyson's "Ulysses" / R. F. Storch -- Seeds for the planting of bloom / Michael Beausang -- Dante's Ulysses : from epic to novel / John Freccero -- Odysseus in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Martha Nussbaum -- Joyce and Homer / Richard Ellmann -- Platonic and Christian Ulysses / Jean Pepin -- Philosophy of the Odyssey / R. B. Rutherford -- Odysseus and the suitors / Sheila Murnaghan.