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Book XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus' extraordinary account of how he met the ghosts of the past in the Underworld, occupies a central place in Homer's epic and was to become a foundational work of Western literature. Odysseus learns of his future from the blind seer Teiresias and of events on Ithaca from the ghost of his mother, Anticleia, and confronts the Iliadic past in the ghosts of Agamemnon, Achilles and Ajax. Book XI is also a repository of epic and mythological narrative, as Odysseus sees a parade of women who tell him their stories, as well as the sinners, like Sisyphos, who are eternally punished in Hades. This edition helps students understand the syntax, metre and language of the book; sophisticated literary discussion of Book XI and its place in the Odyssey will also make this edition very valuable for students and scholars at all levels.

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Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his recent books include The Measure of Homer (Cambridge, 2018) and (with Rebecca Laemmle) Euripides, Cyclops (Cambridge, 2020) in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. His essays are collected in On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008) and The Layers of the Text (2021). He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Rebecca Laemmle is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Her award-winning doctoral thesis was published as Poetik des Satyrspiels (2013). She co-edited, with Richard Hunter, Euripides, Cyclops (Cambridge, 2020) in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series and has published widely in both English and German on ancient literature and its reception.

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