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Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Andrew Laughlin Ford (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Richard Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Mark Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Joseph Clauss (HTML at UC Press)
The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Laura M. Slatkin (HTML at UC Press)
The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic, by Douglas Frame (HTML at Harvard)
The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
Homer and History (London: Macmillan, 1915), by Walter Leaf (page images at HathiTrust)
Homerische Untersuchungen (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1884), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
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Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Homer (in German; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1916), by Jacob Wackernagel (page images at HathiTrust)
The Unity of Homer (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1921), by John A. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
Homer and His Age, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis, by Casey Dué (HTML at Harvard)
Penelope in the Odyssey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916), by J. W. Mackail (page images at HathiTrust)
Troie, la guerre de Troie, et les origines préhistoriques de la question d'orient (Hachette et cie, 1915), by Félix Sartiaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The rise of the Greek epic; being a course of lectures delivered at Harvard University (The Clarendon press, 1911), by Gilbert Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Homer & the Iliad; an essay to determine the scope and character of the original poem (J. M. Dent & co., 1909), by Florence Melian Stawell (page images at HathiTrust)
Quaestiones epicae (Sumtibus fratum Bornträger, 1837), by Karl Lehrs (page images at HathiTrust)
De tribus Homeri Odysseae codicibus antiquissimis (A. W. Sijthoff, 1896), by P. C. Molhuysen (page images at HathiTrust)
Prolegomena ad Homerum, sive de operum Homericorum prisca et genuina forma variisque mutationibus et probabili ratione emendandi (Libraria Orphanotrophei, 1795), by F. A. Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Homer and his influence. (Cooper Square Publishers, 1963), by John Adams Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Odyssee als Dichtung und ihr Verhältnis zur Ilias (Ferdinand Schöningh, 1914), by Carl Rothe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Saggi sulle fonti della epopea greca. (N. Zanichelli, 1889), by Arnaldo Foresti (page images at HathiTrust)
De Iliadis et Odysseae partibus recentioribus; sive, De arte inducendi et concludendi sermonis homerica. (Typis academicis J.A. Koch, 1908), by Johann Berger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die aristotelische Theorie vom epos nach ihrer Entwicklung bei griechen und römern (C. Limbarth, 1889), by Ludwig Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
Das homerische epos aus den denkmälern erläutert. Archäologische untersuchungen (B. G. Teubner, 1887), by Wolfgang Helbig (page images at HathiTrust)
Das Kind in der epischen Dichtung der Griechen ... (P. Haupt, 1923), by Oskar von Allmen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die anfänge der hellenischen kultur. Homer (Kirchheim, 1903), by Engelbert Drerup (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Beiträge zur Geschichte der epischen Poesie der Griechen. (Teubner, 1862), by Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Quintus Smyrnaeus and the "Homer" of the tragic poets (F. Norgate, 1879), by F. A. Paley (page images at HathiTrust)
Homer. (Macmillan, 1878), by W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
De cyclo Graecorum epico et poetis cyclicis scripsit, eorum fragmenta (A. Lehnholdi, 1829), by Karl Wilhelm Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Sagenpoesie der Griechen, kritisch dargestellt. (C.A. Schwetschke, 1852), by Gregor Wilhelm Nitzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Scolies genevoises de l'Iliade. (H. Georg, 1891), by Jules Nicole, Société auxiliaire des sciences et des arts de Genève, and Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève (page images at HathiTrust)
Thebanische Heldenlieder. Untersuchungen über die Epen des thebanisch-argivischen Sagenkreises. (S. Hirzel, 1891), by Erich Bethe (page images at HathiTrust)
Homeros : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Theorie des Epos (F. Alber, 1910), by Richard Kralik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Entstehung der Odyssee und die Versabzählung in den griechischen Epen (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1910), by August Fick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Homer und der epische Kyklos. Darlegung des historisch vorliegenden Thatbestandes zur Verständigung und Entwirrung. Nebst einem Anhange: Fragmente zur Beurtheilung der Einheit der Ilias. (F.C. Eisen, 1839), by Heinrich Düntzer (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Entwicklung der homerischen Poesie (Weidmann, 1882), by Benedikt Niese (page images at HathiTrust)
De agro Troiano in carminibus Homericis descripto. Commentatio geographico-critica (Apud I.A.G. Weigel in commissis, 1814), by Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn (page images at HathiTrust)
Gedichte nach Inhalt und Komposition. (E. Weber, 1835), by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (page images at HathiTrust)
Die griechischen Tragödien mit Rücksicht auf den epischen Cyclus (E. Weber, 1839), by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (page images at HathiTrust)
The women of Homer (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898), by Walter Copland Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
L'elemento lirico nell'epos omerico (Tipografia T. Nistri, 1894), by Augusto Mancini (page images at HathiTrust)
Der epische Cyclus, oder Die homerischen Dichter (E. Weber, 1849), by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (page images at HathiTrust)
Homerische forschungen (B.G. Teubner, 1864), by Bernhard Giseke (page images at HathiTrust)
Homers Odyssee. (Druck und Verlag von B.G. Teubner, 1869), by Homer, Karl Hentze, and Karl Friedrich Ameis (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber die Grundbedeutung von Koniunktiv und Optativ und ihr Verhältnis zu den Temporibus : auf grund der homerischen Epen (Druck der Universitäts-Buchdruckerei von E. Th. Jacob, 1892), by Karl Hammerschmidt and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Pour mieux connaître Homère. 2e édition. (Hachette, 1911), by Michel Bréal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Homer's Iliad : a commentary (Sigma Pub. Co., 1890), by Denton Jaques Snider (page images at HathiTrust)
Homerische abhandlungen (Hahn, 1872), by Heinrich Düntzer (page images at HathiTrust)
Orazione intorno ad Omero e a Dante di Giovanni Petrettini ... (Nella tipografia del Seminario, 1821), by Giovanni Petrettini (page images at HathiTrust)
Historia carminum Homericorum. (1867), by Georgios Mistiotes (page images at HathiTrust)
Miscellanea Homerica; being a compilation of original and selected articles on those points of Greek literature which are auxiliary and necessary to the critical study of Homer. (W. Curry, jun. & company, 1840), by Henry Owgan (page images at HathiTrust)
Topographie et plan stratégique de l'Iliade, avec une carte topographique et stratégique (L. Hachette et cie, 1867), by G. Nikolaïdes (page images at HathiTrust)
Ulysses Homer; or, A discovery of the true author of the Iliad and Odyssey. (J. Murray, 1829), by Jean Baptiste Le Chevalier (page images at HathiTrust)
Juventus mundi; the gods and men of the heroic age (Macmillan and co., 1869), by W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber den ursprung der Homerischen gesänge (T. O. Weigel, 1840), by Carl Eduard Geppert (page images at HathiTrust)
Der schlüssel zu Homers Ilias und Odüsseias. (The Lipsius press], 1913), by John Faber (page images at HathiTrust)
The origin of the Homeric poems; a lecture (Harper, 1880), by Hermann Bonitz (page images at HathiTrust)
An essay on the original genius and writings of Homer ... (London, 1824), by Robert Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Homer. (Printed at the Herald office, 1855), by D. D. Whedon (page images at HathiTrust)
Homère et Socrate. (M. Lévy frères, 1863), by Alphonse de Lamartine (page images at HathiTrust)
Regia potestas quae fverit secvndvm Homervm. Dissertatio ... (Halae, 1867), by Albertvs E. Veckenstedt (page images at HathiTrust)
De supellectili in Homeri Iliade et Odyssea illustranda. Dissertatio ... (Halis, 1866), by Theodorus Vogel (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber das zeitalter und vaterland des Homer (F. A. Helm, 1832), by Bernhard Thiersch (page images at HathiTrust)
Homerus quid de perfecta corporis humani forma potissimum de deorum formis iudicaverit. Dissertatio ... (Ienae, 1874), by Albertus Schaeffer (page images at HathiTrust)
De usu coniunctivi et optativi in enuntiationibus secundariis apud epicos Graecos (Formis Ploetzianis, 1867), by Petrus Witting (page images at HathiTrust)
Homer. The Iliad ... (Edinburgh and London, 1870), by William Lucas Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Homer: the Iliad (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874), by W. Lucas Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
Arkheologicheskiia pisma. (1872), by Aleksei Nikolaevich Olenin and Nikolai Ivanovich Gnedich (page images at HathiTrust)
Quaestionum homericarum, particula quae est de recensione Pisistratea. Dissertatio ... (Halis Saxoniae, 1865), by Fredericus Guilelmus Haag (page images at HathiTrust)
Del fato nelle poesie omeriche : studio (Studio bibliografico A. Polla, 1983), by Luigi Cerrato (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Von Nestor-Samuel bis zu Orestes-Salomo (Trèubner, 1908), by P. Jensen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
"Homerus" Periclis aetate quinam habitus sit, quaeritur. (George Bell and Sons, 1877), by F. A. Paley (page images at HathiTrust)
The pattern of the Iliad (Methuen & co., ltd., 1922), by John Tresidder Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Historia tōn Homērikōn epōn (ek tou Typographeiou P. D. Sakellariou, 1903), by Geōrgios Mistriōtēs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Homers Odyssee für den schulgebrauch erklärt (B.G. Teubner, 1874), by Homer, Karl Hentze, and Karl Friedrich Ameis (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Kampf der Sieben von Theben und König Oidipus : Studien zum griechischen Epos (Borna-Leipzig : Robert Noske, 1917., 1917), by Carl Kirchhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Commentationes epicae (T.O. Weigel, 1854), by Richard Emil Volkmann (page images at HathiTrust)
De Aiacis origine, culta patria. Accedunt commentationes tres, De Amazonibus, De Careis, De Telegonia. (Apud A. W. Sijthoff, 1907), by Julius Johannes Gerardus Vürtheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Homer and his age. (AMS Press, 1968), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Quaestiones de Orphei Argonauticorum elocutione : dissertatio inauguralis philologica quam amplissimi philosophorum ordinis consensu et auctoritate ad summos in philosophia honores in Universitate Fridericiana Halensi cum Vitebergensi consociata a philosopohorum ordine rite impetrandos (Formis Descripsit E. Karras, 1887), by Johannes Rosenboom (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Stoff des griechischen Epos (In Commission bei Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1897), by Hermann Usener (page images at HathiTrust)
De Iliadis carmine quodam Phocaico (Formis C. Georgi, 1875), by Hermann Usener (page images at HathiTrust)
Familiar Studies in Homer, by Agnes M. Clerke (Gutenberg ebook)
Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey, by W. Lucas Collins (Gutenberg ebook)
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3: I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer., by W. E. Gladstone (Gutenberg ebook)
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3: Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age, by W. E. Gladstone (Gutenberg ebook)
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3: I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races, by W. E. Gladstone (Gutenberg ebook)
The World of Homer, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg ebook)
Homer's Odyssey: A Commentary, by Denton Jaques Snider (Gutenberg ebook)

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