Anthony Verity is a classical scholar and educationalist whose
appointments include Head of Classics at Bristol Grammar School,
Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School, and Master of Dulwich College
from 1986 to 1995. His translations for Oxford World's Classics
include Theocritus, Idylls, Pindar, The Complete Odes, and Homer,
The Odyssey. Barbara Graziosi's research focuses on ancient Greek
literature and its readers, both ancient and modern.
Her books include Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic
(CUP, 2002, pbk 2007), Homer: The Resonance of Epic, (Duckworth,
2005, jointly written with Johannes Haubold), Homer in the
Twentieth Century: Between World
Literature and the Western Canon (OUP, 2007, pbk 2010, jointly
edited with Emily Greenwood), The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic
Studies (2009, jointly edited with G. R. Boys-Stones and P.
Vasunia), a commentary on Iliad 6, co-written with Johannes
Haubold, and The Gods of Olympus: A History (Profile, 2014).
Forthcoming books include a VSI to Homer.
`Homer's epic [is] unpredictably and achingly beautiful.'
Nadia Rogers, Irish Times
`Deeply enjoyable ... Considerable artistic effort and
achievement.'
Adrian Kelly, The Anglo-Hellenic Review No. 47
`a fine new translation'
Edward Luttwak, London Review of Books
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