Nine Essays on Homer

, by Carlisle, Miriam; Levaniouk, Olga; Nagy, Gregory; Breed, Brian W.; Ebbott, Mary; Jenkins, Thomas E.; Kouklanakis, Andrea; Naiden, Fred; Pache, Corinne Ondine; Watrous, John

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ISBN: 9780847694242 | 0847694240
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Copyright: 5/13/1999

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The essays in this collections address questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the w

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Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Multigeneric Homer
The Wrath of Helen: Self-Blame and Nemesis in the Iliad	p. 3
Odysseus and the Phaeacians	p. 21
Thersites, Odysseus, and the Social Order	p. 35
Homeric Fictions: Pseudo-Words in Homer	p. 55
Diachronic Homer
Penelope and the Penelops	p. 95
Odysseus Back Home and Back from the Dead	p. 137
Visual Homer
Artemis and the Lion: Two Similes in Odyssey 6	p. 165
Homer's Leopard Simile	p. 177
Textual Homer
Homeros ekainopoiese: Theseus, Aithra, and Variation in Homeric Myth-Making	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 227
Index of Homeric Passages	p. 237
General Index	p. 239
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