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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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Marco Hartog
reviewed The Scepter and the Spear; Studies on Forms of Repetition in the Homeric Poems (Greek Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches) on May 31, 2013
The Scepter and the Spear; Studies on Forms of Repetition in the Homeric Poems (Greek Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Great book to read as a companion to either Homeric Epics, but especially the Odyssey. A bit on the technical side throughout, but not overwhelmingly or off puttingly so.
The topics discussed range from archeology, the changes in ship design in the bronze and archaic ages, etymology, geography and ethnography. Peppered throughout are summations of existing scholarly opinions in these fields and the author does a good job of addressing them in an even handed fashion.
A very good read!
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