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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 List of illustrations 10 List of contributors 12 Preface 17 Maps 19 1 Introduction 23 PART 1: THE POEMS AND THEIR NARRATOR 31 2 The Iliad: an unpredictable classic 33 Subject and themes 33 Narrative structures 39 Characters 41 Social complexity 44 Evaluations 49 FURTHER READING 51 3 The Odyssey and its explorations 53 FURTHER READING 66 4 The story-teller and his audience 67 FURTHER READING 77 PART 2: THE CHARACTERS 79 5 The Gods in the Homeric epics 81 The Gods of the Iliad: who and where? 82 The Gods of the Iliad: interaction with humans 85 The Gods in the Odyssey: differences between the epics 89 ‘Homer’s Gods’ between epic and religion 91 FURTHER READING 95 6 Manhood and heroism 96 FURTHER READING 112 7 Gender and Homeric epic 113 Gender and the Iliad 115 Gender and the Odyssey 125 Conclusion 135 FURTHER READING 136 PART 3: THE POET’S CRAFT 137 8 Formulas, metre and type-scenes 139 Repetition in Homer 139 Homeric metre 141 Metre and formulas 145 Definitions of the formula 149 Meaning in formulaic composition 150 Composition beyond the hexameter 152 Composition with type-scenes 156 FURTHER READING 159 9 Similes and other likene

Author

Robert Fowler

Language

EN