Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Voorwoord xi
4. List of Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Scholarship on Meanings and Etymology of τέλος and τελέω/τελείω 3
7. A Tentative Semantic Framework 21
8. Tέλος and τελέω in Homer and the Homeric Hymns 31
9. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Hesiod 61
10. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Lyric Poetry (I) 67
11. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Lyric Poetry; II (Pindar and Bacchylides) 76
12. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Tragedy 85
13. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Old Comedy 107
14. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Herodotus and Thucydides 111
15. Τελέω, έκτελέω and τέλος in Xenophon, Plato, and the Orators a selection 121
16. Compounds and Derivatives. I; Base τελέω 148
17. Compounds and Derivatives II; base τέλος 170
18. General Conclusion 225
19. Appendix 241
20. Notes 260
21. Bibliography 305
22. Indices 321