Index of Homeric Passages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception 1
5. Part I. Framing
6. Homer, Repetition and Reception 15
7. Part II: Homer In Archaic Ideology
8. Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext 31
9. Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia 45
10. Performance, Poetic Identity and Intertextuality in Pindar’s Olympian 4 59
11. Homer and Epic in Herodotus’ Book 7 71
12. Part III. Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse
13. Argumenta Homerica: Homer’s Reception by Aeschines 93
14. Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos 125
15. The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato’s Hippias Minor 147
16. A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle’s Discussion of ἀνδρεία 163
17. Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in Iamblichus 175
18. Part IV. Hellenistic and Later Receptions
19. Ἑρμιόνην, ἣ εἶδος ἔχε χρυσέης ᾿Aφροδίτης (Od. 4.14): Praising a Female through Aphrodite – From Homer into Hellenistic Epigram 189
20. Pausanias and Homer 205
21. The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel: Εxamination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages 215
22. Part V. Latin Transformations
23. Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil’s Eclogues 227
24. Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil’s First Descriptio 249
25. ‘tollite me, Teucri’ (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer 263
26. Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris 277
27. Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid 289
28. Part VI. Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions
29. Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil 303
30. On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Οral Traditional Poetry 315
31. Part VII. Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage
32. Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi 331
33. Symbolic Remarriage in Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ Alcestis 343
34. Euripides’ ‘Trojan Trilogy’ and the Reception of the Epic Tradition 355
35. Andromache’s Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage 369
36. Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre 379
37. Part VIII. Refiguring Homer in Film and Music
38. The Reception of Homer in Silent Film 393
39. Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis’ Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions 405
40. ‘Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite’: The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis 417
41. Bibliography 435
42. Notes on Contributors 475
43. General Index 481
44. Index of Homeric Passages 491