Title: No need or audience for this one.
Product review: I would not consider assigning or recommending this title to my students who are going to read Iliad IX in Greek. The late Malcolm Willcock's commentary on Books I-XII (ISBN 185399507X) costs only three dollars more, is certainly the equal of this one in critical acumen and literary appreciation, and is more helpful on the Greek. (And of course, it also covers books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12.) Griffin is aware of Willcock's work, which he rightly describes as "unpretentious and helpful" (p. 47). He has not produced new material that will require students or scholars to notice his little book.
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