Homer the Preclassic

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Part I. A Preclassical Homer from the Dark Age 3 1. Homer and the Athenian Empire The Athenian Empire 9 Athens as Homer’s Imperial Metropolis 10 Homer the Ionian 12 Homer and the Panionian Festivals of Delos and Beyond 19 The Performance of Epic at the Panathenaia in the Era of the Peisistratidai: The Later Years 20 2. Homer Outside His Poetry Homer in the Life of Homer Traditions 29 The Making of Homeric Verse in the Life of Homer Traditions 31 Homer the Epigrammatist 48 Homer’s Reception in Performance 48 Homer as a Model Performer at Panhellenic Festivals 51 The Homeric Hymn to Apollo as an Aetiology of Homeric Performance at the Delia 55 3. Homer and His Genealogy The Homēridai of Chios 59 A Post-Athenocentric View of the Homēridai 65 The Performance of Epic at the Panathenaia in the Era of the Peisistratidai: The Earlier Years 69 The Homers of Thucydides and Herodotus 74 4. Homer in the Homeric Odyssey The Festive Poetics of an Ongoing Humnos in Odyssey viii 79 A Poetic Crisis at a Festival 93 An Agōn Between Demodokos and Odysseus 96 5. Iliadic Multiformities The Transcendence of Zeus as Hymnic Subject 103 Older and Newer Versions of the Iliad 109 An Inventory of Epic Forms 119 Acephalic and Nonacephalic Prooimia 120 Variations on the Plan of Zeus 121 The Sorrows of Andromache 125 Part II. A Preclassical Homer from the Bronze Age 129 6. Variations on a Theme of Homer Rival Datings of Homer 133 A Pre-Athenocentric Life of Homer 134 An Athenocentric Life of Homer 139 An Aeolian Dating of Homer 141 Homer the Aeolian 142 7. Conflicting Claims on Homer The Tomb of Achilles and the Topography of the Troad 147 The Tomb of Achilles as a Landmark for the Festival of the Panathenaia 170 Two Tombs for Achilles 177 Rethinking the Trojan Past 189 Homer the Ionian Revisited 211 8. Homeric Variations on a Theme of Empire Four Festivals and Four Models of Empire 218 A Homeric Glimpse of an Ionian Festival 228 An Aeolic Phase of Homer 232 An Attic Phase of Homer 233 Ionic Koine and Aeolic Koine 234 Homer the Aeolian Revisited 238 A Homeric Glimpse of an Aeolian Festival 241 The Festive Poetics of Federal Politics 250 9. Further Variations on a Theme of Homer Homer the Federal Hostage 254 Homeric Variability 265 The Peplos of Athena and the Poetics of Split Referencing 266 10. Homer and the Poetics of Variation The Sorrows of Andromache Revisited 273 Pattern-weaving Back into the Bronze Age 278 A Final Retrospective: Andromache’s Last Look at Hector 308 Epilegomena: A Preclassical Text of Homer in the Making Reconstructing Homer Forward in Time 311 The Peisistratean Recension and Beyond 314 Asiatic and Helladic Receptions of Homer 325 A Spokesman for All Hellenes 329 Homer’s Split Personality 330 A Prototype for Homer, Hesiod, and Orpheus 331 Homeric Koine 333 Homerus Auctus 334 Hesiod as a Contemporary of Homer 336 Orpheus as a Precursor of Hesiod and Homer 340 Orpheus as a Neoteric 341 Orpheus in the Era of the Peisistratidai 343 Selective Adjustment of Repertoire 352 The Poetics and Politics of the Homerus Auctus 355 The Shield of Achilles and the Homerus Auctus 357 The Ideology of Cosmos and Imperium in Homer Through the Ages 361 The Ring of Minos as a Symbol of Cosmos and Imperium 362 The Shield of Achilles as a Symbol of Cosmos and Imperium 366 Ten Centuries of Homeric Transmission 369 Homer the Poet of Kings 372 From Homer the Preclassic to Homer the Classic 376 Bibliography 383 Index Locorum 403 This page intentionally left blank ...