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21. Patterns of Human Error in Homer

From the book Homer and Early Greek Epic

  • Margalit Finkelberg
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671452-021
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
From the book
Homer and Early Greek Epic
Homer and Early Greek Epic

Chapters in this book (39)

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