The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule

by Jane B. Carter; Emily Vermeule; Sarah P. Morris

• ISBN13: 9780292711693
• ISBN10: 0292711697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

Homer' 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
List of Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Emily T. Vermeule: Biography and Bibliography	p. 11
Toumba tou Skourou: A Brief Personal Memoir of Emily Vermeule in Cyprus	p. 19
The Bronze Age Context of Homer	p. 25
Homer, Lycia, and Lukka	p. 33
A Hittite Silver Vessel in the Form of a Fist	p. 45
Appendix: The Silver Stag "BIBRU" from Mycenae	p. 61
Mycenaean Pottery at Saqqara: Finds from Excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society of London and the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden, Leiden, 1975-1990	p. 67
Cyprus and the Western Mediterranean: Some New Evidence for Interrelations	p. 93
Shining and Fragrant Cloth in Homeric Epic	p. 99
Death and the Tanagra Larnakes	p. 109
Heroes Returned? Subminoan Burials from Crete	p. 123
Lydia between East and West or How to Date the Trojan War: A Study in Herodotus	p. 139
War Story into Wrath Story	p. 149
An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry: Comparative Perspectives	p. 163
The Geometric Catalogue of Ships	p. 181
Glaucus, the Leaves, and the Heroic Boast of Iliad 6.146-211	p. 193
The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus: Architecture, Gender, Philosophy. A Homeric Dialogue	p. 205
The Sacrifice of Astyanax: Near Eastern Contributions to the Siege of Troy	p. 221
Homer's Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, or Literary Trope? [A Perspective on Early Orientalism]	p. 247
A Dancing Floor for Ariadne (Iliad 18.590-592): Aspects of Ritual Movement in Homer and Minoan Religion	p. 273
Ancestor Cult and the Occasion of Homeric Performance	p. 285
Reading Pictorial Narrative: The Law Court Scene of the Shield of Achilles	p. 315
Human Figures, the Ajax Painter, and Narrative Scenes in Earlier Corinthian Vase Painting	p. 335
Story Lines: Observations on Sophilan Narrative	p. 363
Some Homeric Animals on the Lion Painter's Pitcher at Harvard	p. 373
A Geometric Bard	p. 389
Early Images of Daidalos in Flight	p. 407
The Murder of Rhesos on a Chalcidian Neck-Amphora by the Inscription Painter	p. 415
Menelaos and Helen in Troy	p. 431
Stories from the Trojan Cycle in the Work of Douris	p. 437
Priam, King of Troy	p. 449
Neon Ilion and Ilium Novum: Kings, Soldiers, Citizens, and Tourists at Classical Troy	p. 467
Alexander and Achilles - Macedonians and "Mycenaeans"	p. 483
An Arretine Bowl and the Revenge of Achilles	p. 507
Notes on Contributors	p. 523
Index of Homeric Passages	p. 529
Index of Homeric Words (Cited in Greek Script)	p. 537
Index of Homeric Words (Cited as Transliteration)	p. 540
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