A New Companion to HomerIan Morris, Barry B. Powell BRILL, 1997 - 755 pages This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading scholars from Europe and America provide short, authoritative overviews of the state of knowledge and current controversies in the many specialist divisions in Homeric studies. The chapters pay equal attention to literary, mythological, linguistic, historical, and archaeological topics, ranging from such long-established problems as the "Homeric Question" to newer issues like the relevance of narratology and computer-assisted quantification. The collection, the third publication in Brill's handbook series, "The Classical Tradition," will be valuable at every level of study - from the general student of literature to the Homeric specialist seeking a general understanding of the latest developments across the whole range of Homeric scholarship. |
Contents
Homer and Writing | 3 |
Homer and Narratology | 13 |
Homeric Warfare | 29 |
Homer in Antiquity | 33 |
Homeric Papyri and Transmission of the Text | 55 |
Homeric Scholia | 101 |
The Homeric Question | 123 |
Oral Tradition and its Implications | 146 |
Modern Theoretical Approaches to Homer | 380 |
Epic as Genre | 396 |
Myth in Homer | 415 |
Homer and the Folktale | 442 |
Homer and Hesiod | 463 |
The Homeric Hymns | 482 |
JENNY STRAUSS CLAY | 489 |
Homer and the Bronze | 511 |
Neoanalysis | 175 |
Homers Dialect | 193 |
Homers Meter | 218 |
JOSEPH RUSSO | 238 |
Homeric Style and Oral Poetics | 261 |
The Study of Homeric Discourse | 299 |
IRENE DE JONG | 305 |
Quantifying Epic | 326 |
Structure and Interpretation | 345 |
The Structures of the Odyssey | 360 |
Homer and the Iron | 535 |
Homer and Greek | 560 |
Homer and the Near East | 599 |
Homeric Society | 624 |
The Homeric Economy | 649 |
HANS VAN WEES | 668 |
Homeric Ethics | 694 |
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