This is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. This volume contains commentaries by J. A. Russo (books xvii-xx), M. Fernandez-Galiano (xxi-xxii), and A. Heubeck (xxiii-xxiv)

This is the third and final volume of a presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's Odyssey compiled by an international team of scholars and published in Italian under the auspices of Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume each section of commentary is preceded by introductions dealing with the books in question. For this English version the introduction and commentary have been thoroughly revised and adapted to the text of T.W. Allen in the Oxford Classical Texts series.

`What is so admirable about Oxford's new commentary on the Odyssey is that it provides pure protein in a highly edible form: high scholarship has become haute cuisine.' The Times