books.google.ca - The two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are the earliest narrative poems in European literature. This survey gives a concise but detailed account of the present state of criticism of them. The debates about the date, authorship and origins of the epics are lucidly summarised,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Homer.html?id=VqCH26xWDXUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHomer