The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule
by Jane B. Carter; Emily Vermeule; Sarah P. MorrisFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Texas Pr
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Summary
Homer' Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary accounts of the most current issues in the study of Homer.The book is divided into three sections. The first section treats the Bronze Age setting of the poems (around 1200 B.C.), using archaeological evidence to reveal how poetic memory preserves, distorts, and invents the past. The second section explores the early Iron Age, in which the poems were written (c. 800-500 B.C.), using the strategies of comparative philology and mythology, literary theory, historical linguistics, anthropology, and iconography to determine how the poems took shape. The final section traces the use of Homer for literary and artistic inspiration by classical Greece and Rome.
Table of Contents
| Tabula Gratulatoria | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Emily T. Vermeule: Biography and Bibliography | p. 11 |
| Toumba tou Skourou: A Brief Personal Memoir of Emily Vermeule in Cyprus | p. 19 |
| The Bronze Age Context of Homer | p. 25 |
| Homer, Lycia, and Lukka | p. 33 |
| A Hittite Silver Vessel in the Form of a Fist | p. 45 |
| Appendix: The Silver Stag "BIBRU" from Mycenae | p. 61 |
| Mycenaean Pottery at Saqqara: Finds from Excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society of London and the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden, Leiden, 1975-1990 | p. 67 |
| Cyprus and the Western Mediterranean: Some New Evidence for Interrelations | p. 93 |
| Shining and Fragrant Cloth in Homeric Epic | p. 99 |
| Death and the Tanagra Larnakes | p. 109 |
| Heroes Returned? Subminoan Burials from Crete | p. 123 |
| Lydia between East and West or How to Date the Trojan War: A Study in Herodotus | p. 139 |
| War Story into Wrath Story | p. 149 |
| An Evolutionary Model for the Making of Homeric Poetry: Comparative Perspectives | p. 163 |
| The Geometric Catalogue of Ships | p. 181 |
| Glaucus, the Leaves, and the Heroic Boast of Iliad 6.146-211 | p. 193 |
| The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus: Architecture, Gender, Philosophy. A Homeric Dialogue | p. 205 |
| The Sacrifice of Astyanax: Near Eastern Contributions to the Siege of Troy | p. 221 |
| Homer's Phoenicians: History, Ethnography, or Literary Trope? [A Perspective on Early Orientalism] | p. 247 |
| A Dancing Floor for Ariadne (Iliad 18.590-592): Aspects of Ritual Movement in Homer and Minoan Religion | p. 273 |
| Ancestor Cult and the Occasion of Homeric Performance | p. 285 |
| Reading Pictorial Narrative: The Law Court Scene of the Shield of Achilles | p. 315 |
| Human Figures, the Ajax Painter, and Narrative Scenes in Earlier Corinthian Vase Painting | p. 335 |
| Story Lines: Observations on Sophilan Narrative | p. 363 |
| Some Homeric Animals on the Lion Painter's Pitcher at Harvard | p. 373 |
| A Geometric Bard | p. 389 |
| Early Images of Daidalos in Flight | p. 407 |
| The Murder of Rhesos on a Chalcidian Neck-Amphora by the Inscription Painter | p. 415 |
| Menelaos and Helen in Troy | p. 431 |
| Stories from the Trojan Cycle in the Work of Douris | p. 437 |
| Priam, King of Troy | p. 449 |
| Neon Ilion and Ilium Novum: Kings, Soldiers, Citizens, and Tourists at Classical Troy | p. 467 |
| Alexander and Achilles - Macedonians and "Mycenaeans" | p. 483 |
| An Arretine Bowl and the Revenge of Achilles | p. 507 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 523 |
| Index of Homeric Passages | p. 529 |
| Index of Homeric Words (Cited in Greek Script) | p. 537 |
| Index of Homeric Words (Cited as Transliteration) | p. 540 |
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