Saturday, 3 October 2015

How can I find peer-reviewed articles on The Odyssey that reference the theme of heroism?

Walter Fischer

, needless to say, is a classic that has been studied for
centuries.  There is no shortage of scholarly work that has been published on s epic of
Odysseus/Ulysses and his ten-year journey home to his beautiful wife Penelope and now-grown son
Telemachus.  It is entirely possible -- and it is surprising that university librarians have not
been able to assist a student seeking help locating sources -- that the use of the phrase peer
reviewed has confused people.  While the definition of a scholarly work is one that has been
submitted for review by ones professional peers, many scholarly articles are not subjected to
that process.  Rather, the individual scholar qualifies his or her research on the basis of the
primary sources utilized in preparing the manuscript and the scholars own academic
bona...

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