13. How Could Achilles’ Fame Have Been Lost?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Abbreviations XIII
5. List of the original publication venues XV
6. Part I: Language and Diction
7. 1. Is ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ a Homeric Formula? 3
8. 2. Homer’s View of the Epic Narrative: Some Formulaic Evidence 9
9. 3. A Note on some Metrical Irregularities in Homer 15
10. 4. Formulaic and Nonformulaic Elements in Homer 22
11. 5. Homer, a Poet of an Individual Style 45
12. 6. Oral Theory and the Limits of Formulaic Diction 53
13. 7. More on ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ 66
14. 8. Late Features in the Speeches of the Iliad 78
15. 9. Oral-Formulaic Theory and the Individual Poet 95
16. 10. Equivalent Formulae for Zeus in Their Traditional Context 104
17. Part II: Homer and Heroic Tradition
18. 11. The First Song of Demodocus 113
19. 12. A Creative Oral Poet and the Muse 118
20. 13. How Could Achilles’ Fame Have Been Lost? 127
21. 14. The Sources of Iliad 7 140
22. 15. The End of the Heroic Age in Homer, Hesiod and the Cycle 150
23. 16. Homer and his Peers: Neoanalysis, Oral Theory, and the Status of Homer 158
24. 17. Meta-Cyclic Epic and Homeric Poetry 169
25. 18. The Formation of the Homeric Epics 182
26. Part III: Homer’s Worlds and Values
27. 19. Royal Succession in Heroic Greece 199
28. 20. Odysseus and the Genus ‘Hero’ 218
29. 21. Patterns of Human Error in Homer 232
30. 22. Timē and Aretē in Homer 251
31. 23. Homer and the Bottomless Well of the Past 269
32. 24. Greece in the Eighth Century BCE and the ‘Renaissance’ Phenomenon 278
33. Part IV: Transmission and Reception
34. 25. Ajax’s Entry in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women 291
35. 26. The Cypria, the Iliad, and the Problem of Multiformity in Oral and Written Tradition 305
36. 27. Homer as a Foundation Text 318
37. 28. ‘She Turns about in the Same Spot and Watches for Orion’: ancient criticism and exegesis of Od. 5.274 = Il. 18.488 331
38. 29. Regional Texts and the Circulation of Books: The Case of Homer 340
39. 30. Canonizing and Decanonizing Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity 353
40. 31. Homer at the Panathenaia: Some possible Scenarios 365
41. References 375
42. General index 389
43. Index of passages cited 399