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) `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