Land and Sea in the Odyssey and the Telegony

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Part I. Epos
5. Strange Instances of Time and Space in Odysseus’ Return 3
6. Calculating the Mythical Dimension: Time and Distance in Homeric Navigation 9
7. Land and Sea in the Odyssey and the Telegony 27
8. The Correlation of Fountains and Altars in Archaic Greek Poetry 43
9. Iris as Messenger and Her Journey: Speech in Space and Time 63
10. The Patronymics Pelides and Aenides: Past, Present and Future in Homeric and Virgilian Genealogical Catalogues 79
11. Part II. Drama
12. The Bacchic-Chor(a)ic Chronotope: Dionysus, Chora and Chorality in the Fifth Stasimon of Sophocles’ Antigone 99
13. The Re-enactment of the Past in the Present and the Transformation of Space in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus 145
14. Time- and Space-Travelling in Greek Middle Comedy 165
15. Part III. Empirical and Imaginary Chronotopes
16. The martyria of the Strife for Attica – martyria of Changes in Cult and Myth. Space and Time in the West Pediment of the Parthenon 181
17. Cattle-raid Myths in Western Peloponnese 197
18. Time and Space in Argolic Traditions: From Ocean to Europe 207
19. About the Boeotian Origin of the Emmenidai’s Genos: An Indication from Gela 217
20. Fighting on the River: The Alpheus and the ‘Pylian Epic’ 229
21. Time and Space in the Myth of Byblis and Caunus 239
22. Mythological Time and Space in Ovid’s Exile Poetry 253
23. Part IV. Shifting Chronotopes
24. Kairos: The Appropriate Time, Place and Degree in Protagoras’ Myth of Origins 267
25. From Here to Eternity: Mythologein in Plato’s Phaedo 285
26. Ovid’s Temple(s) of Vesta (Fasti 6.249– 460) 299
27. Carmenta in the Fasti: A Tale of Two Feasts 315
28. The Decisive Moment in Mythology: The Instant of Metamorphosis 335
29. Index Locorum 355
30. Index Nominum Notabiliorum 359
31. Notes on Contributors 365