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gee ei lwleealoan faa DREAMWORKS SKG Mark W. Edwards PROPERTY OF DREAMWORKS ANIMATION RESEARCH LIBRARY Mark W. Edwards |n o>? V TAAIORG VRARGLSH OAARSS9 Homer Poet of the Iliad THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS BALTIMORE AND LONDON This book has been brought to publication with the generous assistance of the David M. Robinson Publication Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. © 1987 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 1987 Printed in the United States of America The Johns Hopkins University Press zor West 4oth Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21211 The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London Originally published in hardcover, 1987 Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, 1990 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Edwards, Mark W. Homer, poet of the Iliad. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Homer. Iliad. 2. Trojan War in literature. 3. Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature. I. Title. PA4037.E39 1987 883/.01 86-21134 ISBN 0-8018-3329-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8018-4016-3 (pbk.} Title page illustration: Poet, youth, and dog, from an Attic red-figure cup of 490-480 B.c. attributed to Douris. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1976, and loan Musee du Louvre. (1976.181.3) Used by permission. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 The Purpose and Plan of This Book 1 Homeric Style: Some Basic Features 2 The Scale and Structure of the Poems 7 ‘ PART I: Characteristics of Homeric Poetry 1. The Bard, Oral Poetry, and Our Present Text 15 The Bard in Homer 16 Homer the Singer 19 The Techniques of Oral Poetry 21 The Establishment of the Text 23 2. Narrative: The Poet’s Voice 29 3. Language 42 4. Meter and Formulae 45 5. Word Order and Emphasis 55 6. Story Patterns and Use of Myth 61 Large-Scale Story Patterns 62 Small-Scale Patterns 64 Homer’s Adaptation of Myth 67 7. Type-Scenes and Expansion 71 8. Battle Scenes 78 9. Description 82 10. Speeches, Soliloquies, and Characterization 88 Speeches 89 Soliloquies 94 Characterization 96 ul. Paradigms and Aphorisms 98 12. Similes 102 vi 13. Metaphors 11 14.Symbolism 14 15.Sound 117 16. Word Play and Significant Names 120 17. Gods, Fate, and Mortality 124 The Gods as the Religion of the Characters 125 The Gods as a Compositional Device 131 Mortals and the Gods _ 138 18. Personification and Psychology 143 19. Honor, Proper Behavior, and Warfare 149 Honor 150 The Proper Way to Behave 152 Warfare 154 20. History and Society 159 Ionia in the Time of Homer 160 Archaisms from the Mycenaean Age 163 Society and Weapons in the Homeric Poems 164 PART II: Commentaries 21. Iliad Book 1 173 The Proem (1-12a) 174 The Priest’s Appeal and the Plague (12b-52) 176 The Assembly and the Quarrel (53-305) 178 Achilles and Thetis (306-492) 182 The Assembly of the Gods (493-611) 184 22. Iliad Book 3-188 Challenge to a Duel (1-120) 190 Helen and Priam on the Wall (121-244) 191 The Duel and the Rescue (245-382) 194 Helen and Paris (383-461) 195 23. Iliad Book 6 198 The Battle Continues (1-118) 200 Diomedes and Glaucus (119-236) 201 Hector with Hecuba and with Helen (237-368) 206 Hector and Andromache (369-529) 208 24. Iliad Book 9 214 vii The Greeks Decide to Approach Achilles (1-181) 216 The Three Envoys and Their Reception (182-221) 218 Odysseus’s Speech and Achilles’ Response (222-431) 221 Phoenix, Meleager, and Achilles (432-622a) 224 Ajax and Achilles, and the Envoys’ Return (622b-713) 229 The Significance of Achilles’ Decision 231 25. Iliad Book 13 238 26. Iliad Book 14 246 The Greek Council (1-152) 246 The Beguiling of Zeus (153-353) 247 ‘ Poseidon Rallies the Greeks (354-15.4a) 250 Zeus Awakens (15.4b-261) 251 27. Iliad Book 16 254 Achilles and Patroclus (1-100) 257 Patroclus Prepares for Battle (101-256) 259 Patroclus and Sarpedon (257-683) 261 The Death of Patroclus (684-867) 263 28. Iliad Book 18 267 The Mourning of Achilles (1-147) 270 The Recovery of Patroclus’s Body (148-242) 273 Hector’s Decision (243-313) 274 The Lament for Patroclus (314-67) 275 Thetis Visits Hephaestus (368-477) 276 The Shield of Achilles (478-616) 278 29. Iliad Book 22 287 Preliminaries to the Duel (I-91) 290 Hector’s Soliloquy (92-130) 291 Hector’s Flight before Achilles (131-213) 292 Achilles’ Victory (214-404) 295 The First Laments for Hector (405-515) 298 30. Iliad Book 24 301 Achilles’ Continuing Grief (1-142) 304 Preparations for the Ransoming (143-321) 306 Priam’s Journey to Achilles (322-468) 306 Vili Priam and Achilles (469-676) 308 The Funeral of Hector (677-804) 313 Afterword: The World-view of Homer 317 Bibliography 325 - Index 337

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