It takes the average reader 6 hours and 55 minutes to read A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Introduction and Books I-VIII by Alfred Heubeck
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This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and Hainsworth (Books V-VIII) is preceded byan introduction which discusses previous research on the Odyssey, the nature of the poem and its relation to the Iliad, the epic dialect, and the transmission of the text. Book VI is a regular GCSE set text.
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Introduction and Books I-VIII by Alfred Heubeck is 412 pages long, and a total of 103,824 words.
This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 127% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 27 minutes to read A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Introduction and Books I-VIII aloud.
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Introduction and Books I-VIII is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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