H.'s excellent translation of the Odyssey was first published by Duckworth in 2000. That edition has now been republished by Bloomsbury Academic as part of their Revelations series which seeks to bring together ‘an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world’. This reprinted edition now includes three maps (probably in answer to D.M. Goldstein's review [BMCR 2001.08.39] which noted the unfortunate omission of maps in a poem in which [often confused] geography plays an integral role in the narrative) presented in the following order: Map 1 Mainland Greece; Map 2 The Aegean and Asia Minor; Map 3 The Eastern Mediterranean. The inclusion of this material is certainly of use to the reader though Map 1 suffers from the greyscaled presentation which has resulted in the names of rivers being particularly hard to make out. Initially, the significance of capitalised regions and place names alongside lower case counterparts in Map 1, as well as additional place names being given in brackets, can appear confusing and it is only through reference to H.'s copious and abundantly useful index (which gives the headings of major entries in bold capitals [p. 271]) that the system becomes fairly clear. A brief note or key to the maps might have made their use more immediate. One further observation might also be that a neophyte reader of the Odyssey often requires orientation on Odysseus' pattern of wandering especially given the narrative complexity of Books 5–13.

J. Griffin's succinct but wide-ranging introduction (pp. xxi–xxxiv) is reproduced before a select bibliography (pp. xxxv–xxxviii) updated from the 2000 edition. This includes an additional thirteen new entries published after 2000: 1 under ‘Texts and Commentaries’; 3 under ‘Companions’; 4 under ‘General Introductions’; 1 under ‘Geography of the Odyssey’; 2 under ‘General’; 2 under ‘Reception’.

H.'s precise and highly readable translation embraces not only the immediate human appeal of the Odyssey but also much of what is alien to modern literary culture: ‘modes of speech, insistent narrative sequencing, the wealth of formulaic repetition’ (p. xvi); each of these features of Homeric style are reproduced in pursuit of fidelity ‘to both matter and manner’ (p. xv). H.'s translation which is reproduced in this reprinted edition has been discussed in some detail in Garvie's review of the 2000 publication (CR 51.2). Goldstein has also dissected the translation (BMCR 2001.08.39) and thus further detailed linguistic comment on this excellent edition would only be adding to the already established fact that H.'s Odyssey offers Anglophone readers a faithful and direct experience of the style and manner of Homer's great poem.