Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry

Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Franco Montanari: Introduction: The Homeric Question Today......Page 12
Part I: Theoretical Issues......Page 22
General Remarks......Page 24
The Teuthranian Expedition......Page 26
Oral Argonautic Epic......Page 31
Other Myths......Page 35
Summary......Page 36
A Word about Methodology......Page 38
Different Ways of Looking at References to Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry......Page 41
Historical Contexts of Homeric Panhellenism and their Relevance to the Unity of Homeric Composition......Page 50
Three sets of Homeric Passages Showing References to Hero Cult......Page 58
Set One......Page 59
Set Two......Page 62
Set Three......Page 71
Conclusions......Page 80
Margalit Finkelberg: Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet......Page 84
The Formulaic and the Non-formulaic......Page 85
The Traditional and the Individual......Page 88
Conclusions......Page 93
Introduction......Page 94
Communicative and Cultural Memory Contrasted......Page 95
Personal Memory......Page 98
Cultural Memory......Page 100
Case study I: Hector and Andromache......Page 102
Case study II: Odysseus on Scheria......Page 105
Jim Marks: Ἀρχοὺς αὖ νεῶν ἐρέω: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships......Page 112
Part II: Iliad......Page 124
Maureen Alden: The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59)......Page 126
Introduction: Methodological Reflection......Page 144
The Doloneia and Its Poetics......Page 149
The Plot of Iliad 10......Page 155
The Function of the Doloneia......Page 160
Mythic and Ritual Patterns......Page 162
The Doloneia as a Katabasis......Page 166
Folktale Motifs and Wondrous Tales......Page 169
Horses and Solar Light as Key Motifs: Links with the Iliad......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 183
Casey Dué: Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century......Page 186
Martina Hirschberger: The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad......Page 196
Leonard Muellner: Grieving Achilles......Page 208
Adrian Kelly: The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad......Page 232
I. Mourning Thetis and the Neoanalysts......Page 234
II. Prospective Lamentation in Homer......Page 240
II.a The Basic Pattern: [2] and [6]......Page 242
II.b The Pattern Compressed (and Regendered): [1]......Page 245
II.c The Pattern Specialised: [5], [7] and [8]......Page 247
II.d The Pattern Transferred, Combined and Negated: [4]......Page 252
II.e The Pattern Applied: [3]......Page 257
III. The Future......Page 266
IV. Conclusion......Page 273
Appendix – PL sequences in Homeric poetry......Page 275
Part III: Odyssey......Page 278
The Anxiety of Belatedness......Page 280
Traveling Heroes......Page 282
Traveling Nobodies......Page 285
No Direction Home......Page 287
Metamorphosis and Stagnation......Page 288
Pompē Circumstances......Page 290
Vestigial Travel......Page 292
Traveling Kleos......Page 294
Belated Travel Writing......Page 298
Ioannis Petropoulos: The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi......Page 302
I. Straightforward ‘proems’: Od. 4.239 –44, 4.266 –275, and 9.19 –20 (resumed at 37 –38)......Page 310
II. Nestor’s allusive ‘proems’: Od. 3.103 – 108 and 130 – 136......Page 314
Preliminary Considerations......Page 320
Crete and an Alternative Odyssey......Page 324
Openings......Page 330
Crete......Page 332
Troy......Page 336
1. Idomeneus......Page 337
2. ‘Unwillingness to participate in the Trojan War’......Page 339
Egypt......Page 342
1. The ‘7+1 years’ motif......Page 346
2. The motif of ‘second departure’......Page 347
3. The motif of ‘being defeated in a foreign land’......Page 348
Phoenicia and Thesprotia......Page 349
The False Tales, ‘Proto-Panhellenism’, and the Rise of the Odyssey......Page 355
I. General Remarks......Page 358
II. Method......Page 362
III. Animal Similes in Odyssey 22......Page 364
Olga Levaniouk: Οὐ χρώμεθα τοῖς ξενικοῖς ποιήμασιν: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey......Page 380
Part IV: Language and Formulas......Page 422
A. C. Cassio: Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad......Page 424
Pietro Pucci: Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad......Page 438
Naoko Yamagata: Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction......Page 456
The Noun-Epithet Formulae with ‘Echoes’......Page 457
Achilles......Page 459
Odysseus......Page 460
Diomedes......Page 461
Agamemnon......Page 462
Menelaus......Page 463
Penelope......Page 464
Medon......Page 465
Priam......Page 466
Nestor......Page 467
Patroclus......Page 468
Eumaeus......Page 469
Pandarus......Page 470
Zeus......Page 471
Athena......Page 472
Iris......Page 473
Aphrodite......Page 474
Hephaestus......Page 475
Thetis......Page 476
Summary of observations......Page 477
Part V: Homer and Beyond......Page 480
1. The Name of Homer......Page 482
2. IG XII 9.56.135: Homer in Euboea......Page 485
3. Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi – Certamen Eretriae et Chalcidis......Page 489
4. The role of Theagenes of Rhegium......Page 504
Ruth Scodel: Hesiod and the Epic Cycle......Page 512
Introduction to a Contradiction......Page 528
The Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.494 –759) and the Olympic Games......Page 529
The Thebaid and the Nemean Games: Archemorus, Cleisthenes and the Argive Lobby......Page 531
The Iconography of the Theban Saga in the 6th Century BC......Page 538
The Thebaid and its Historical Context......Page 540
Stephanie West: Some Reflections on Alpamysh......Page 542
Neoanalysis in the 21st century: old polemics and new......Page 554
I.1 Death of Patroclus ~ death of Achilles......Page 560
I.2 Achilles and Patroclus ~ Gilgamesh and Enkidu......Page 561
I.3 Death of Enkidu ~ death of Gilgamesh......Page 563
I.4 Synthesis......Page 564
II.1 Hera’s seduction of Zeus ~ Aphrodite’s seduction of Anchises......Page 566
II.2 Aphrodite and Anchises ~ Inana and Dumuzi......Page 568
II.3 Ishtar’s propositioning of Gilgamesh ~ Inana’s propositioning of Dumuzi / Sumerian Kings......Page 570
II.4 Synthesis......Page 573
The question of historical influence......Page 579
An oral or literate poetics of allusion?......Page 582
Bibliography......Page 592
List of Contributors......Page 636
General Index......Page 642
Index of Ancient Names......Page 652
Index of Modern Names......Page 663
Index Locorum......Page 677