The Best of the Odyssey Commentators, Part I

Bernard Knox, Luc Ferry, and Gregory Nagy

This summer the book club I lead went through Homer’s Odyssey.  It was my third time reading it, and I noticed a number of things I hadn’t before.  This is one hallmark of those works we rightly call the Great Books:  they may be read repeatedly over the course of one’s life.  Some of the new-found learning is due to your realizing the existence of slig…