The Homer Encyclopedia

382 Pages·2011·18.353 MB·English

by  Margalit Finkelberg

Volume III
The
Homer
Encyclopedia
Edited by
Margalit Finkelberg
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The Homer encyclopedia / edited by Margalit Finkelberg.
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Brief Contents
Volume I
List of Entries vi
List of Illustrations xvii
List of Maps xix
Notes on Contributors xx
Preface and Acknowledgments xxxvii
Synopsis xxxix
List of Abbreviations xlv
The Homer Encyclopedia A-G 1-325
Volume II
List of Illustrations vi
List of Maps viii
List of Abbreviations ix
The Homer Encyclopedia H-Q 326-705
Volume III
List of Illustrations vi
List of Maps viii
List of Abbreviations ix
The Homer Encyclopedia R-Z 706-954
References 955
Index 1031
Illustrations
Fig. 1 Earliest known photograph of the Lion Gate at Mycenae, ca. 1859 70
Fig. 2 Plan of the citadel of Mycenae showing the excavations
by Schliemann in the area immediately inside the Lion Gate
and Grave Circle A 71
Fig. 3 Tiryns, the eastern approach, ca. 1886 71
Fig. 4 The fortifications of Troy VI, with Dörpfeld standing on top, 1894 72
Fig. 5 Scythian warrior stringing a composite bow 80
Fig. 6 “Schliemann’s Nestor’s cup” from Shaft Grave IV 100
Fig. 7 A woodcut of Nestor’s cup by A. Alciato (1584) 101
Fig. 8 Avdo Medjedovii 121
Fig. 9 Carl W. Biegen 134
Fig. 10 Plan of the Mycenaean palace of Pylos 376
Fig. 11 Lefkandi (Toumba), plan 377
Fig. 12 Lefkandi (Toumba), reconstruction 377
Fig. 13 Oropos, aerial photo of the Early Iron Age settlement 378
Fig. 14 Blinding of cyclops, amphora, Eleusis; early 7th century bce 392
Fig. 15 Blinding of cyclops, Etruscan pithos; 650-625 bce 392
Fig. 16 Chariot race at the Funeral Games for Patroklos,
from the François vase; early 6th century bce 393
Fig. 17 The “Euphronios krater,” ca. 515 bce 403
Fig. 18 Transcription of the Dipylon Oinochoe inscription
of a Late Geometric prize jug from Athens, ca. 730 bce 410
Fig. 19 Albert B. Lord 488
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VII
Fig. 20 The area of Mycenae 536
Fig. 21 The inscription on “Nestor’s Cup,” from Pithekoussai, ca. 730 bce 573
Fig. 22 Odyssey 9.295-309, 344-384, and 11.273-282, archive
of Aurelius Ammon, Panopolis (Egypt), 3rd century ce 622
Fig. 23 Milman Parry 630
Fig. 24 Phoinix leads the Embassy to Achilles; bronze tripod leg,
Olympia, ca. 620 bce 662
Fig. 25 Nicosia, Kouklia T.9:7, 11th-century bce proto-bichrome kalathos 664
Fig. 26 Archelaus of Priene, Apotheosis of Homer (3rd century bce) 709
Fig. 27 Pintoricchio (1454-1513), Penelope with the Suitors, ca. 1509 730
Fig. 28 Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), Achilles Lamenting the Death
ofPatroclus, 1760-1763 731
Fig. 29 John Flaxman (1755-1826), The Embassy to Achilles
from The Iliad, 1793 732
Fig. 30 Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993), from The Odyssey,
Odysseus and Penelope, 1973-1974 733
Fig. 31 Heinrich Schliemann 762
Fig. 32 Ship and rigging 781
Fig. 33 Impression of the Shield of Achilles 795
Fig. 34 Large building of Troy Vila excavated in the course
of recent excavations west of the citadel 899
Fig. 35 Plan of Late Bronze Age Troy 900
Fig. 36 South Gate of Troy VI and VII 901
Fig. 37 Troy VIII, ca. 100 bce 903
Fig. 38 Troy IX, ca. 100 ce 904
Fig. 39 Folio 19r of the Venetus A, featuring Iliad A 352-376,
with accompanying scholia 923
Fig. 40 F. A. Wolf, painting by Johann Wolff, 1823 937
Maps
Map 1 Troy’s Homeric Allies 52
Map 2 The bases of the Greek contingents in the Catalogue of Ships 154
Map 3 The Troad 307
Map 4 Troy and environs 308
Map 5 Major regions and cities enjoying close contacts with Ithaca
in the Ithacan books of the Odyssey (1-4, 13-24) 310
Abbreviations
A&A Antike und Abendland
AA Archäologischer Anzeiger
AAA Archaiologika analekta ex Athenon (Athens Annals of Archaeology)
AAntHung Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
AC VAntiquité classique
AClass Acta Classica
AH Archaeologia Homerica: die Denkmäler und das frühgriechische
Epos, ed. Friedrich Matz and Hans-Gunter Buchholz. Gottingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967-
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJP American Journal of Philology
Allen T. W. Allen. Homeri Opera, vols. 1-2: 3rd ed. (1920); vols. 3-4: 2nd ed.
(1917-1919). Oxford: Clarendon Press
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
AS Anatolian Studies
ASNP Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
ATU H-J. Uther. The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and
Bibliography, vols. 1-3. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica,
2004
AW Antike Welt
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique
X LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Beazley, ARV J. D. Beazley. Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters, vols. 1-3. 2nd ed. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1963
Bernabé A. Bernabé. Poetarum Epicorum Graecorum Testimonia et Fragmenta
{PEG). I. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1996 (1st ed., 1987). II.
Munich and Leipzig: Saur, 2004-2005 (= OF Bernabé)
BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
BMCR Bryn Mawr Classical Review
BNP Brill’s New Pauly. Leiden and Boston, 2002-
BSA Annual of the British School at Athens
CA Classical Antiquity
CAF T. Kock. Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta. 3 vols. Leipzig: Teubner,
1880-1888
CAG Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca
CAH Cambridge Ancient History
Campbell D. A. Campbell (ed.). Greek Lyric: Sappho and Alcaeus. Cambridge,
MA, 1982
CEG Carmina Epigraphica Graeca, vols. 1-2, ed. P. A. Hansen. Berlin and
New York: de Gruyter, 1983-1989
Chantraine P. Chantraine. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grècque. Histoire
des mots. Paris: Klincksieck, 1968. New edition with supplement,
1999
CJ Classical Journal
CoMIK J. Chadwick, L. Godart, J. T. Killen, J.-P. Olivier, A. Sacconi,
L. Sakellarakis. Corpus ofMycenaean Inscriptions, vols. 1-4. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986-1998
CP Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
CR Classical Review
CSCA California Studies of Classical Antiquity
CTA A. Herdner (ed.). Corpus des tablettes en cunéiformes alphabétiques
découvertes à Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 à 1939. Paris: Geuthner
1963
CW Classical World
D-K H. Diels and W. Kranz. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratikeru> (Diels-
Kranz). Berlin: Weidmann, 1960-1961
Davies, EGF M. Davies (ed.). Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Göttingen:
Vandenhoek 8c Ruprecht, 1988
Davies, PMGF M. Davies (ed.). Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, vol. 1.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XI
Ebeling H. Ebeling. Lexicon Homericum. Leipzig: Teubner, 1880-1885
EGF see Davies, EGF
EMC Echos du Monde Ciassique
FGrHist see Jacoby
Fowler R. L. Fowler. Early Greek Mythography, vol. 1: Text and Introduction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
G&R Greece and Rome
GEF see West
GGM see Müller
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
GVl W. Peek (ed.). Griechische Vers-Inschriften I: Grab-Epigramme. Berlin:
Akademie-Verlag, 1955
HED Hittite Etymological Dictionary. Berlin and New York: Mouton de
Gruyter, 1991—
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
ICS Illinois Classical Studies
IEG M. L. West (ed.). Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, vols.
1-2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971-1972 (= W)
IG Inscriptiones Graecae, 1873—
IJCT International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Jacoby F. Jacoby. Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Berlin: Weidmann
1923- (= FGrHist)
JANER Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions
mi
Journal of the History of Ideas
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
K-A = PCG
Kannicht R. Kannicht (ed.). TrGF, voL 5: Euripides (2004)
KGW Friedrich Nietzsche. Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Ed. G. Colli
and M. Montinari. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1967-
Kroll W. Kroll (ed.). Procli Diadochi in Platonis Rem publicam commentarii.
Leipzig: Teubner, 1899-1901
KUB Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazkoi
Lex. Vind. Lexicon Vindobonense, ed. A. Nauck. St. Petersburg, 1867. Repr.
Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965
LfgrE Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck 8t
Ruprecht, 1955-