The Renewal of Epic: Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius

THE RENEW AL OF EPIC :  RESPONSES TO HOMER IN THE ARGONAUTICA OF APOLLONIUS
CONTENTS
Preface
I Introduction
	a) The Homeric World
	b) Lexical Similarity
	c) The Simile
	d) Relationships between Scenes
	e) Relationships between Characters
	f) \'Homeric Time\' and Focalisation
	A Test Case: The Symplegades
II The Homeric \'Recurrent Scene\'
	1. The Sacrifice: 1. 402-49
	2. The Boxing Match (2. 1-97)
		a) Iliad 23
		b) Odyssey 18
	3. Shipwrecks and Storms at Sea: 2.1097-1121
III Battle Scenes
	a) Cyzicus
	b) The Bebryces: 2.98-136
	c) Jason\'s Aristeia in Book 3
	d) Apsyrtus and the Colchians
	e) Frustrated Battles
IV The Argonauts and the Wanderings of Odysseus
	1. Introduction
	2. The Cicones and the Colchians
	3. The Lotus-eaters and Libya
	4. The Cyclops
		a) The Hylas Episode
		b) Amycus
		c) Colchis
		d) Talos
		e) Conclusion
	5. Aeolus
	6. The Laestrygonians and Cyzicus
	7. The \'Odyssean\' Adventures of Book 4
	8. Circe
		a) Lemnos
		b) Phineus
		c) Book 3: Medea and Aeetes
		d) Circe in Book 4
	9. The Sirens
	10. Scylla and Charybdis
	11. The Wandering Rocks
	12. The Cattle of the Sun
	13. Calypso
	14. The Phaeacians
		a) Book 3
		b) The Argonauts\' Visit to the Phaeacians
V The Gods of the Argonautica
	Modes of Action
	Awareness of the Gods
	Scenes of Divine Intervention
		a) Athena at the Symplegades
		b) The Opening of Book 3
		c) Hera, Iris and Thetis: 4.753-865
Bibliography
Glossary of Greek Words
General Index
Index of Passages Discussed
Index of Greek Words
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