In the wake of recent advances in the treatment of longstanding problems pertaining to the interpretation of Homeric poetry, this volume brings together cutting-edge research from a cohort of acclaimed scholars on Homer and the Homeric Hymns. The variety of topics covered spans the entire field of Homeric philology: the methods and solutions provided for a new edition of the Odyssey, the puzzle of the relation between the festival of the Panathenaea and the Homeric text, the disclosure of the meaning of notorious cruces pertaining to arcane formulas, the two emblematic heroes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Achilles and Odysseus, Homeric poetics, the range and use of repetition in a traditional medium, the composition of the Homeric epics, the Apologoi and 'Cyclic' Narrative, as well as the Homeric Hymns to Hermes and Aphrodite.
Author(s): Christos Tsagalis; Andreas Markantonatos (eds.)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 311
City: Berlin/Boston
Tags: Classical Studies; Greek Language and Literature; Greek Authors; Iliad; Odyssey; Homeric Hymns
Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Introduction
Text
Editing the Odyssey
West, M. L.
Homer at the Panathenaia: Some possible scenarios
Finkelberg, Margalit
Interpretation
The failed embassy: Achilles in the Iliad
Montanari, Franco
Hector (and) the race horse: The telescopic vision of the Iliad
Bakker, Egbert
Homeric fate, Homeric poetics
Scodel, Ruth
The Apologos of Odysseus: Tradition and conspiracy theories
Burgess, J. S.
The best of the Achaeans? Odysseus and Achilles in the Odyssey
Grethlein, Jonas
Language and Formulas
Repetition, range, and attention: The Iliad
Hutchinson, G. O.
‘Authentic’ vs. ‘artificial’: Homeric EΠEΕΣΣΙ(Ν) reconsidered
Cassio, A. C.
ΑΠ’/ΚΑΤ’ ΑΙΓΙΛΙΠΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΗΣ: Homeric iconyms and Hittite answers
Tsagalis, Christos
Mysterious Lemnos: A note on AΜΙΧΘΑΛOΕΣΣΑ (Il. 24.753)
West, Stephanie
Homeric Hymns
‘Hail and take pleasure!’ Making gods present in narration through choral song and other epiphanic strategies in the Homeric Hymns to Dionysus and Apollo
Bierl, Anton
Tithonus, Eos and the cicada in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Sappho fr. 58
Janko, Richard
Publications by Antonios Rengakos
General Index
Index of Principal Homeric Passages
