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Table of contents :
A NEW COMPANION TO HOMER/5
CONTENTS/9
CONTRIBUTORS/13
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION/15
PART ONE - TRANSMISSION AND HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION/21
HOMER AND WRITING/23
HOMER IN ANTIQUITY/53
HOMERIC PAPYRI AND TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXT/75
HOMERIC SCHOLIA/121
THE HOMERIC QUESTION/143
ORAL TRADITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS/166
NEOANALYSIS/194
PART TWO - HOMER'S LANGUAGE/211
HOMER'S DIALECT/213
HOMER'S METER/238
THE FORMULA/258
HOMERIC STYLE AND ORAL POETICS/281
THE STUDY OF HOMERIC DISCOURSE/304
HOMER AND NARRATOLOGY/325
QUANTIFYING EPIC/346
PART THREE - HOMER AS LITERATURE/363
THE ILIAD: STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION/365
THE STRUCTURES OF THE ODYSSEY/380
MODERN THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO HOMER/400
EPIC AS GENRE/416
MYTH IN HOMER/435
HOMER AND THE FOLKTALE/462
HOMER AND HESIOD/483
THE HOMERIC HYMNS/509
PART FOUR - HOMER'S WORLDS/529
HOMER AND THE BRONZE AGE/531
HOMER AND THE IRON AGE/555
HOMER AND GREEK ART/580
HOMER AND THE NEAR EAST/619
HOMERIC SOCIETY/644,Black
THE HOMERIC ECONOMY/669
HOMERIC WARFARE/688
HOMERIC ETHICS/714
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX/767

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A NEW COMPANION TO HOMER

MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT J. M. BREMER H. W.

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SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM SEXAGESIMUM TERTIUM

IAN MORRIS & BARRY POWELL

A NEW COMPANION TO HOMER

A NEW COMPANION TO HOMER EDITED

IAN MORRIS

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BY

BARRY POWELL

BRILL NEW YORK· KOLN 1997

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book is printed on acid-free paper.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A new companion to Homer I edited by Ian Morris and Barry Powell. p. cm. - (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, ISSN 0 1 69-8958 ; 163) Updated ed. of: A companion to Homer. 1962. Includes index. ISBN 9004099891 (alk. paper) I. Homer-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Epic poetry, Greek­ -History and criticism. 3. Epic poetry, Creek-Criticism, Textual. 4. Oral tradition-Greece. 5. Civilization, Homeric. I. Morris, 11. Powell, Barry B. Ill. Companion to Homer. Ian, 1 96oIV. Series. PA4037.N42 1996 883'.0 l-dc20 96-38925 CIP Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufuahme [Mnemosyne I Supplementum]

Mnemosyne : bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Leiden; New York; Koln: Brill. Friiher Schriftenreihe Reihe Supplementum zu: Mnemosyne

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