Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Series Foreword ix
4. Volume Foreword xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Epic Genre and Technique
8. 1. Epic as Genre 31
9. 2. Similes and Performance 47
10. 3. Formulas and Speeches: The Usefulness of Parry’s Method 73
11. 4. Wrapping Homer Up: Cohesion, Discourse, and Deviation in the Iliad 87
12. Part II. Mythic Hymnists, Historical Performers
13. 5. Apollo’s Kithara and Poseidon’s Crash-Test: Ritual and Contest in the Evolution of Greek Aesthetics 109
14. 6. The Senses of an Ending: Myth, Ritual, and Poetic Exodia in Performance 145
15. 7. Synchronic Aspects of Homeric Performance: The Evidence of the Hymn to Apollo 181
16. 8. Rhapsodizing Orpheus 205
17. 9. Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets 217
18. Part III. Hesiodic Constructions
19. 10. Hesiod and the Didactic Double 239
20. 11. Hesiod’s Metanastic Poetics 259
21. 12. Hesiod, Odysseus, and the Instruction of Princes 285
22. 13. Pulp Epic: The Catalogue and the Shield 309
23. Part IV. The Backward Look
24. 14. Keens from the Absent Chorus: Troy to Ulster 337
25. 15. Telemachus and the Last Hero Song 359
26. 16. Until It Ends: Varieties of Iliadic Anticipation 383
27. 17. Distant Landmarks: Homer and Hesiod 407
28. Works Cited 443
29. Index of Ancient Passages 483
30. Index of Subjects 495