Archaeology Odyssey

Eric Havelock, Preface to Plato (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1963).

M.I. Finley, The World of Odysseus (New York: Viking Press, 1954).

Rhys Carpenter, Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1962), p. 26.

For a sampling of differing conclusions, see Carol G. Thomas, ed., Homer’s History: Mycaenaean or Dark Age? (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).

Milman Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse, ed. Adam Parry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).

E.R. Dodds, Fifty Years (and Twelve) of Classical Scholarship (Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1954), p. 8f.

S.E. Bassett, The Poetry of Homer (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1938), p. 244.

J.A.K. Thomson, Studies in the Odyssey (Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1914), p. 189.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz, Die Ilias und Homer (Berlin: Weidman, 1916), p. 322.