Homeric Questions

Index

Index Achilles, 2, 7, 48, 61, 78 – 79, 106, 107, 114, 123, 131, 138 –145, 151–152 Aelian, 73, 74, 78 Aesop, 136 African traditions, 14, 29, 55, 59 – 61 Agamemnon, 78, 138 –142 Ajax, 106, 138 –143 Alcaeus, 55, 110 alēthēs ‘true,’ alētheia ‘truth,’ 122 –128 Alexandria, 3, 5, 38, 95 Alexandrian scholars, 3, 38, 88, 95 –101 “all grammars leak,” 9 Anacreon, 81 anagnōstēs ‘one who reads out loud,’ 98 – 99 “analyst” approaches to Homer, 19, 86, 93 – 94, 115, 133 –134. See also “unitarian” approaches to Homer Andromache, 57, 119 anthropology, applications of, 9 –10, 15 –17, 30 – 31, 50, 114, 116 – 118, 127, 130, 132, 135, 137, 149 aoidos ‘singer,’ 55, 58, 82, 84, 87– 90 Apollo, 88, 116 Apollodorus, 105 Apollonius of Rhodes, 3 Archilochus, dating of, 111; (F 286 – 287), 145 Argos, 106 Aristarchus, 3, 42, 88, 96 – 98, 103, 114 Aristophanes of Athens, 5 Aristophanes of Byzantium, 96 Aristotle, 1, 2, 37, 128 Poetics: (1447a13), 38; (1448b27), 32 – 34, 61; (1459b1– 7), 38 Rhetoric: (1375b30), 105; (F 166), 2; (611.10), 72 Asclepiades of Myrlea, 95 Athena, 115 –116, 131 Athenaeus, (3a), 66; (634c), 4 Athens, 42 – 43, 52, 65 – 66, 71– 75, 80 – 81, 94 – 95, 100 –101, 106, 108, 110 Athenians, 66, 73 – 75, 94, 96, 99 – 100, 102, 104 –105, 109 –110, 130 Athenodorus, 73 Atticus, 98 Aubignac, abbé d,’ 39 audience, and relationship to performer , 17, 20, 25, 33, 36, 40 – 41, 43, 47, 52, 54 – 55, 57– 60, 62 – 63, 77, 123, 132, 138, 151–152 author, concepts of, 1, 19, 27, 31, 38, 46, 80, 84, 85, 89, 94, 111–112 Bagre, 40 Bible, 71 “big bang” models for genesis of epic, 70, 73, 83, 92 – 93 blame, poetics of, 36, 61. See also praise Bororo, 118 –119, 135 Callimachus, 72, 150 carpenter, metaphors of, 90 – 91. See also joiner Cattle Raid of Cúailnge, 70 “Changing Woman,” 79 Chios, 4, 72, 75, 85, 100; as birthplace of Homer, 4, 85 Cicero, 73 – 74, 95, 103 composition (vs. performance), 1, 5, 17– 21, 24 – 27, 29 – 37, 39, 41, 44 – 45, 55, 57, 63, 65 – 69, 76, 79, 81, 83 – 84, 89, 92 – 94, 102, 109 –111, 119, 132 –133, 137 composition-in-performance, 17, 19, 29 – 31, 33 – 34, 36, 39 – 40 compression (vs. expansion), 76 – 77 Contest of Homer and Hesiod, 85 cross-referencing, mechanics of (in oral poetics), 82, 130 –131, 133 crystallization, metaphor of, 109 culture hero, 21, 75, 92 – 93, 105, 112, 130 Cycle, epic, 22, 38, 41, 89 – 90, 115, 133, 135 Cypria, 38, 79, 133 Demetrius of Phalerum, 42 dēmiourgos ‘itinerant artisan,’ 55, 90 Demodokos, 85 diachronic (vs. synchronic), 10, 17– 18, 20 – 21, 23, 26, 82 – 83, 88, 133, 150 “diachronic skewing,” 20 dictation, models of, 31– 34, 37, 39, 88, 100, 108 –110 Dieuchidas, 104, 105 diffusion (vs. composition and performance ), 18, 22, 27, 29 – 30, 32, 37– 41, 43 – 44, 46, 48 – 49, 51– 55, 60, 63, 102, 109, 111 diffusion-in-performance, 30 Diogenes Laertius, 75, 81, 94, 101– 102, 104 –105 Draupadı̄, 53 “eccentric” papyri, 96 economy, tendency of, 18, 25 Ephorus, 72 epigram, evidence for oral poetics, 14, 35 – 36 episode, concepts of, 59, 77– 78, 82, 88, 101 epos (epea) ‘poetic utterance,’ 81, 84 – 85, 87, 90, 120 –122, 127–128 Eratosthenes, 3, 150 etymology, concepts of, 9 Eustathius, 86, 87 evolutionary models, 27, 39 – 43, 45, 47, 63, 70, 73, 77, 82 – 83, 92, 96, 100, 102, 104, 106, 109 –111 exemplar, concepts of, 146 exemplum, concepts of, 113, 131, 133, 137, 139, 141, 146 expansion (vs. compression), 76 – 77 Ferdowsi, 70 fieldwork, concepts of, 16 –17, 20, 29, 33, 43, 96, 117 “Five Ages of Homer,” 41, 42 fixation of text, 31, 39 – 40, 43, 45, 69, 76, 83, 92 – 93, 108 –110 fluid (vs. rigid/static/stable) stages in evolution of epic, 26, 41, 42, 46, 109 formula, concepts of, 18, 22 – 25, 124, 134, 137, 142 François Vase, 107 free variant, concept of, 25 Gorgias, 68 Greek Anthology, 73 Grote, George, 39 Guiron le courtois, 70 HOMERIC QUESTIONS 176 Hektor, 2, 36, 57, 119 Helen, 68, 79 Hera, 48, 115, 116, 131 Herakles, 47, 48, 145 hero, concepts of, 44 – 51, 53 – 54, 56 – 58, 61, 78, 92, 123, 132, 135, 139 –141, 143, 145, 151; hērōs ‘hero...