Song of the Sirens and Other Essays

Pietro Pucci is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Among his works are Odysseus Polutropos: Intertextual Readings in the Odysseyand in the Iliad (1987) and Hesiod and the Language of Poetry (1977).

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 The Song of the SirensChapter 4 The Proem of the OdysseyChapter 5 The Language of the MusesChapter 6 Banter and Banquets for Heroic DeathChapter 7 Textual EpiphaniesChapter 8 Epiphanic Strategy and IntertextualityChapter 9 Antiphonal Lament

Pucci's work is clear enough to recommend it to upper-division undergraduates as well as researchers, and even to those who doubt the contributions of these theoristsssss