Author:
Homer.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
Descriptionxvii, 542 p., [2] leaves of plates : illus. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Note:The Bronze Age context of Homer / Sinclair Hood. - Homer, Lycia, and Lukka / Machteld J. Mellink. - A Hittite silver vessel in the form of a fist / H. G. Güterbock and Timothy Kendall. - The Silver Stag "BIBRU" from Mycenae / Robert B. Koehl. - Mycenaean pottery at Saqqara: Finds from excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society of London and the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden, Leiden / Vronwy Hankey and David Aston. - Cyprus and the western Mediterranean: Some new evidence for interrelations / Vassis Karageorghis. - Shining and fragrant cloth in Homeric epic / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine. - Death and the Tanagra Larnakes / Sara Immerwahr. - Heroes returned? Subminoan burials from Crete / Hector Catling. - Lydia between east and west or how to date the Trojan War: A study in Herodotus / Walter Burkert. - War story into wrath story / Mabel L. Lang. - An evolutionary model for the making of Homeric poetry:Comparative perspectives / Gregory Nagy. - The geometric catalogue of ships / J. K. Anderson. - Glaucus, the leaves, and the heroic boast of Iliad 6.146-211 / Eddie R. Lowry, Jr. - The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus: Architecture, gender, philosophy. A Homeric dialogue / Ann L. T. Bergren. - The sacrifice of Astyanax: Near eastern contributions to the siege of Troy / Sarah P. Morris. - Homer's Phoenicians: History, ethnography, or literary trope? [A perspective on early Orientalism] / Irene J. Winter. - A dancing floor for Ariadne (Iliad 18.590-592): Aspects of ritual movement in Homer and Minoan religion / Steven H. Lonsdale. - Ancestor cult and the occasion of Homeric performance / Jane B. Carter. - Reading pictorial narractive: The law court scene of the Shield of Achilles / Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell. - Human figures, the Ajax painter, and narrative scenes in earlier Corinthian vase painting / J. L. Benson. - Story lines: Observations on Sophilan narrative / Ann Blair Brownlee. - Some Homeric animals on the Lion Painter's Pitcher at Harvard / David Gordon Mitten. - A geometric Bard / J. Michael Padgett. - Early images of Daidalos in flight / Erika Simon. - The murder of Rhesos on a Chalcidian neck-amphora by the Inscription Painter / Marion True. - Menelaos and Helen in Troy / Martin Robertson. - Stories from the Trojan cycle in the work of Douris / Diana Buitron-Oliver. - Priam, king of Troy / Margaret C. Miller. - Neon Ilion and Ilium Novum: Kings, soliders, citizens, and tourists at Classical Troy / Cornelius C. Vermeule III. - Alexander and Achilles--Macedonians and "Mycenaeans" / Ada Cohen. - An Arretine bowl and the revenge of Achilles / John J. Herrmann, Jr.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
