Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas

Lowell Edmunds

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Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer

Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas

Lowell Edmunds

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 87 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. Her epithets, most of them referring to her beauty or her kinship with Zeus and coming mainly from the narrator, make her the counterpart of the heroes.

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Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers, New Jersey, US.

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Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Classical Studies, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. Appellatives and Periphrastic Denominations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
2. Epithets of Opprobrium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
3. Ἀργείη Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	40
4. The Name Helen Unmodified Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
5. δῖα γυναικῶν “noble among women”: The Public Figure (1) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
6. τανύπεπλος “long-robed”: The Public Figure (2) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
7. Other Epithets for Beauty (1): ἠΰκομος Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
8. Other Epithets for Beauty (2): λευκώλενος Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
9. Epithets for Beauty (3): καλλίκομος, καλλιπάρῃος Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
10. Kinship Epithets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
11. εὐπατέρεια Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
12. Reflections on Kinship Epithets and Epithets of Beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
13. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
Appendix 1: Helen’s Epithets in Homer in Order of Occurrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Appendix 2: The Name Helen without Epithets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Appendix 3: The “On account of” Motif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Appendix 4: Helen’s epithets in lyric Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Index nominum et rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173

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eBook published on:

July 22, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9783110626124

Hardcover published on:

July 22, 2019

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110626025

Paperback published on:

September 20, 2021

Paperback ISBN:

9783110763379

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Front matter:

13

Main content:

170

Tables:

10

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626124

eBook ISBN: 9783110626124

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110626025

Paperback ISBN: 9783110763379

Keywords for this book

Homer; Griechische Literatur; Ilias

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