Homer and the Homeric Hymns is loaded with resources-glossaries, questions for discussion, analytical and creative exercises, writing models, and suggestions for supplementary reading. Each chapter is self-contained and can be studied individually, so the text can be used as both a close-at-hand resource for the swamped teacher and as a core text for teachers who are designing an entire semester's course of study.

Mara Taylor-Heine, Chair, Upper School English Department, The Chapin School

Clear and challenging, Homer and the Homeric Hymns provides college students in freshman writing and survey classes with context, analytic glosses, and narrative bridges that link crucial and substantial passages from the poems, presenting them for special attention as though they were sets of diamonds on a long string of gems.

John C. Briggs, University of California, Riverside