Approaches to Homer: Ancient & Modern

by Rabel, Robert J.; Burgess, Jonathan S.

• ISBN13: 9781905125043
• ISBN10: 1905125046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

Ten new essays, from a distinguished cast of (mainly) North American scholars, approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. But the contributors also attend to ancient modes of approach to the Homeric poems: linguistic and narratological, ethical and psychological. The volume focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Robert J. Rabel
Demodokos' `Iliad' and Homer's	1	(20)
Donna F. Wilson
The patterning of the similes in Book 2 of the Iliad	21	(34)
William C. Scott
Homer on autobiographical memory: the case of Nestor	55	(18)
Elizabeth Minchin
Similes for Odysseus and Penelope: mortality, divinity, identity	73	(18)
James V. Morrison
Telemakhos' one sneeze and Penelope's two laughs (Odyssey 17.541--50, 18.158--68)	91	(14)
Donald Lateiner
Old men and chirping cicadas in the Teichoskopia	105	(14)
Hanna M. Roisman
The death of Achilles by rhapsodes	119	(16)
Jonathan S. Burgess
The Ciconians, revisited (Homer, Odyssey 9.39--66)	135	(12)
Rick M. Newton
Odysseus' ethnographic digressions	147	(20)
Ruth Scodel
The art of creative listening in the Odyssey	167	(22)
Robert J. Rabel
Index	189	(8)
Index locorum	197