The Ages of Homer

by Carter, Jane B.; Morris, Sarah P.

• ISBN13: 9780292712089
• ISBN10: 0292712081
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

"This is the most exciting and diverse collection of essays on Homer to emerge in the past twenty-five years.... There is no other volume like this in scope or ambition or in the erudition of its contributors. It is one of a kind." --Richard P. Martin, Professor of Classics, Princeton University "Dedicated to the...archaeologist and classical scholar Emily Vermeule, this splendidly illustrated volume takes a special place among the numerous studies devoted to the Homeric past.... To sum it up, this is a valuable collection of penetrating studies about Homer, with interesting insights into early Greek art." --Journal of Indo-European Studies "By any standard an outstanding [collection], and among its thirty-one articles are nearly a dozen that will be appreciated as real advances in the discussion of one Homeric problema or another--perhaps an unprecedented percentage.... The University of Texas Press has produced a volume worthy of its ceremonial function in the career of a tremendously influential scholar and educator. It is lavish, and very attractive." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Will be required reading for serious students of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric world." --Choice Homer's Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary accounts of the most current issues in the study of Homer. The book is divided into three sections. The first section treats the Bronze Age setting of the poems (around 1200 B.C.), using archaeological evidence to reveal how poetic memory preserves, distorts, and invents the past. The second section explores the early Iron Age, in which the poems were written (c. 800-500 B.C.), using the strategies of comparative philology and mythology, literary theory, historical linguistics, anthropology, and iconography to determine how the poems took shape. The final section traces the use of Homer for literary and artistic inspiration by classical Greece and Rome.

Table of Contents

Tabula Gratulatoria	xiii	(2)
List of Abbreviations	xv
Introduction	1	(10)
Jane B. Carter
Sarah P. Morris
Emily T. Vermeule: Biography and Bibliography	11	(8)
Mary B. Comstock
Amy E. Raymond
Florence Z. Wolsky
Toumba tou Skourou: A Brief Personal Memoir of Emily Vermeule in Cyprus	19	(6)
Michael W. Taylor
PART I HOMER AND THE BRONZE AGE: MEMORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY	25	(114)
1. The Bronze Age Context of Homer	25	(8)
Sinclair Hood
2. Homer, Lycia, and Lukka	33	(12)
Machteld J. Mellink
3. A Hittite Silver Vessel in the Form of a Fist	45	(22)
H. G. Guterbock
Timothy Kendall
APPENDIX: The Silver Stag "BIBRU" from Mycenae	61	(6)
Robert B. Koehl
4. Mycenaean Pottery at Saqqara: Finds from Excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society of London and the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden, Leiden, 1975-1990	67	(26)
Vronwy Hankey
David Aston
5. Cyprus and the Western Mediterranean: Some New Evidence for Interrelations	93	(6)
Vassos Karageorghis
6. Shining and Fragrant Cloth in Homeric Epic	99	(10)
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
7. Death and the Tanagra Larnakes	109	(14)
Sara Immerwahr
8. Heroes Returned? Subminoan Burials from Crete	123	(16)
Hector Catling
PART II HOMER AND THE IRON AGE: HISTORY AND POETICS	139	(176)
9. Lydia between East and West or How to Date the Trojan War: A Study in Herodotus	139	(10)
Walter Burkert
10. War Story into Wrath Story	149	(14)
Mabel L. Lang
11. An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry: Comparative Perspectives	163	(18)
Gregory Nagy
12. The Geometric Catalogue of Ships	181	(12)
J.K. Anderson
13. Glaucus, the Leaves, and the Heroic Boast of Iliad 6.146-211	193	(12)
Eddie R. Lowry, Jr.
14. The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus: Architecture, Gender, Philosophy. A Homeric Dialogue	205	(16)
Ann L.T. Bergren
15. The Sacrifice of Astyanax: Near Eastern Contributions to the Siege of Troy	221	(26)
Sarah P. Morris
16. Homer's Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, or Literary Trope? [A Perspective on Early Orientalism]	247	(26)
Irene J. Winter
17. A Dancing Floor for Ariadne (Iliad 18.590-592): Aspects of Ritual Movement in Homer and Minoan Religion	273	(12)
Steven H. Lonsdale
18. Ancestor Cult and the Occasion of Homeric Performance	285	(30)
Jane B. Carter
PART III AFTER HOMER: NARRATIVE AND REPRESENTATION	315	(208)
19. Reading Pictorial Narrative: The Law Court Scene of the Shield of Achilles	315	(20)
Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
20. Human Figures, the Ajax Painter, and Narrative Scenes in Earlier Corinthian Vase Painting	335	(28)
J.L. Benson
21. Story Lines: Observations on Sophilan Narrative	363	(10)
Ann Blair Brownlee
22. Some Homeric Animals on the Lion Painter's Pitcher at Harvard	373	(16)
David Gordon Mitten
23. A Geometric Bard	389	(18)
J. Michael Padgett
24. Early Images of Daidalos in Flight	407	(8)
Erika Simon
25. The Murder of Rhesos on a Chalcidian Neck-Amphora by the Inscription Painter	415	(16)
Marion True
26. Menelaos and Helen in Troy	431	(6)
Martin Robertson
27. Stories from the Trojan Cycle in the Work of Douris	437	(12)
Diana Buitron-Oliver
28. Priam, King of Troy	449	(18)
Margaret C. Miller
29. Neon Ilion and Ilium Novum: Kings, Soldiers, Citizens, and Tourists at Classical Troy	467	(16)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III
30. Alexander and Achilles-Macedonians and "Mycenaeans"	483	(24)
Ada Cohen
31. An Arretine Bowl and the Revenge of Achilles	507	(16)
John J. Herrmann, Jr.
Notes on Contributors	523	(6)
Index of Homeric Passages	529	(8)
Index of Homeric Words (Cited in Greek Script)	537	(3)
Index of Homeric Words (Cited as Transliteration)	540