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Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Abbreviations | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Iros' Mother and the Hand of Penelope: Homeric Diction | 13 |
1 | History of the Problem | 13 |
2 | Iros' Mother | 17 |
3 | Penelope's Hand | 26 |
4 | Poetic Sensitivity to Problematic Epithets | 32 |
5 | The "Irrational" Use of Epithets | 38 |
6 | The Flexibility of Homeric Language | 53 |
2 | The Iliad: Variations on a Theme by Homer | 59 |
1 | The Quarrel in Book 1 | 60 |
2 | Divine Variations | 69 |
3 | The Thersites Variation | 77 |
4 | Agamemnon | 80 |
5 | The Paris Variation | 85 |
6 | Achilleus: Refusal of Compensation | 89 |
7 | Variations on Refusing Compensation | 98 |
8 | Achilleus as a Freak of Nature | 103 |
9 | The Herakles and Chryses Variations | 109 |
10 | Achilleus Agonistes | 113 |
11 | The Funeral Game Variations | 120 |
12 | The Urns of Zeus | 131 |
13 | Nature and Authority | 136 |
Appendix: Later Archaic Epic | 140 | |
3 | The Odyssey | 145 |
1 | The Phaiakians in Book 8 | 149 |
2 | Other Phaiakian Perspectives | 173 |
3 | Menelaos | 179 |
4 | Hermes and the Adventures | 188 |
5 | Ithaka | 201 |
6 | The Connection between Ithaka and Scheria | 207 |
7 | Penelope | 229 |
References | 247 | |
General Index | 259 | |
Index Locorum | 269 | |
About the Author | 287 |
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