Introduction: Why Read Homer? | p. 7 |
Homer as History: Greeks and Others in a Dark Age | p. 21 |
Geras and Guest Gifts in Homer | p. 58 |
Homer's Odyssey, Books 19 and 23: Early Recognition; A Solution to the Enigmas of Ivory and Horns, and the Test of the Bed | p. 89 |
Conversation in the Odyssey | p. 117 |
The End of Speeches and a Speech's End: Nestor, Diomedes, and the telos muthôn | p. 136 |
Achilles'Heel: The Historicism of the Film Troy | p. 163 |
Redefining Homeric Heroism in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy | p. 186 |
The Odyssey and Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life | p. 208 |
Reading The Gunfighter as Homeric Epic | p. 229 |
Contributors | p. 253 |
Index | p. 255 |
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