Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xvii
4. A Brief Note about the New Edition xix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Heroes in Epic and Lyric Poetry
7. Introduction to Homeric Poetry 9
8. HOUR 1. The Homeric Iliad and the Glory of the Unseasonal Hero 25
9. HOUR 2. Achilles as Epic Hero and the Idea of Total Recall in Song 40
10. HOUR 3. Achilles and the Poetics of Lament 63
11. HOUR 4. Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar 75
12. HOUR 5. When Mortals Become ‘Equal’ to Immortals: Death of a Hero, Death of a Bridegroom 92
13. HOUR 6. Patroklos as the Other Self of Achilles 128
14. HOUR 7. The Sign of the Hero in Visual and Verbal Art 150
15. HOUR 8. The Psychology of the Hero’s Sign in the Homeric Iliad 196
16. HOUR 9. The Return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey 213
17. HOUR 10. The Mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey 232
18. HOUR 11. Blessed Are the Heroes: The Cult Hero in Homeric Poetry and Beyond 250
19. HOUR 12. The Cult Hero as an Exponent of Justice in Homeric Poetry and Beyond 279
20. Part Two: Heroes in Prose Media
21. HOUR 13. A Crisis in Reading the World of Heroes 301
22. HOUR 14. Longing for a Hero: A Retrospective 320
23. HOUR 15. What the Hero ‘Means’ 345
24. Part Three: Heroes as Reflected in Tragedy
25. Introduction to Tragedy 385
26. HOUR 16. Heroic Aberration in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus 390
27. HOUR 17. Looking beyond the Cult Hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus 411
28. HOUR 18. Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the Power of the Cult Hero in Death 423
29. HOUR 19. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Heroic Pollution 450
30. HOUR 20. The Hero as Mirror of Men’s and Women’s Experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides 465
31. HOUR 21. The Hero’s Agony in the Bacchae of Euripides 494
32. Part Four: Heroes as Reflected in Two Dialogues of Plato
33. HOUR 22. The Living Word I: Socrates in Plato’s Apology of Socrates 525
34. HOUR 23. The Living Word II: Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo 543
35. Part Five: Heroes Transcended
36. HOUR 24. The Hero as Savior 571
37. Abbreviations 599
38. References 601
39. Core Vocabulary of Key Greek Words 613
40. Index 619