The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction. The Homeric Question Today 1
5. Part I: Theoretical Issues
6. Neoanalysis between Orality and Literacy: Some Remarks Concerning the Development of Greek Myths Including the Legend of the Capture of Troy 13
7. Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry 27
8. Oral Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet 73
9. Memory and Memories: Personal, Social, and Cultural Memory in the Poems of Homer 83
10. Ἀρχοὺς αὖ νεῶν ἐρέω: A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships 101
11. Part II: Iliad
12. The Despised Migrant (Il. 9.648 = 16.59) 115
13. Orality, Fluid Textualization and Interweaving Themes. Some Remarks on the Doloneia: Magical Horses from Night to Light and Death to Life 133
14. Maneuvers in the Dark of Night: Iliad 10 in the Twenty-First Century 175
15. The Fate of Achilles in the Iliad 185
16. Grieving Achilles 197
17. The Mourning of Thetis: ‘Allusion’ and the Future in the Iliad 221
18. Part III: Odyssey
19. Belatedness in the Travels of Odyss 269
20. The Telemachy and the Cyclic Nostoi 291
21. Deauthorizing the Epic Cycle: Odysseus’ False Tale to Eumaeus (Od. 14.199 – 359) 309
22. Animal Similes in Odyssey 22 347
23. Οὐ χρώμεϑα τοῖς ξενικοῖς ποιήμασιν: Questions about Evolution and Fluidity of the Odyssey 369
24. Part IV: Language and Formulas
25. Kypris, Kythereia and the Fifth Book of the Iliad 413
26. Iterative and Syntactical Units: A Religious Gesture in the Iliad 427
27. Epithets with Echoes: A Study on Formula-Narrative Interaction 445
28. Part V: Homer and Beyond
29. Homer ἀγωνιστής in Chalcis 471
30. Hesiod and the Epic Cycle 501
31. The Writing Down of the Oral Thebaid that Homer Knew: In the Footsteps of Wolfgang Kullmann 517
32. Some Reflections on Alpamysh 531
33. The Iliad, Gilgamesh, and Neoanalysis 543
34. Bibliography 581
35. List of Contributors 625
36. Indices 631