About this Book

Introduction /Jonathan Price and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz --Part I.A. Epic: Text. Homer's innocent Aeneas and traditions of the Troad /Ruth Scodel --Formulaic diction and contextual relevance : notes on the meaning of formulaic epithets in Iliad 1 /Seth L. Schein --Babies in the Iliad Book 6 : Astyanax and Dionysus /Maureen Alden --Reading emotional intelligence : Antilochus and Achilles in the Iliad /Elizabeth Minchin --Two mothers : Eos and Thetis in the Aithiopis /Deborah Gera --Seeing the unseen in the Iliad /Hayden Pelliccia --B. Epic: Intertext. The melody of Homeric performance /C. W. Marshall --Helen of Troy-or of Lacedaemon? The Trojan War and royal succession in the Aegean Bronze Age /Richard Janko --Substitute, sacrifice and sidekick : a note on the comparative method and Homer /Ian Rutherford --The birth of literary criticism (Herodotus 2.116-17) and the roots of Homeric neoanalysis /Bruno Currie --Iopas, Vergil's Phoenician Bard (on Aeneid 1.740-747) /Andrea Rotstein --Homer between Celsus, Origen and the Jews of late antique Palaestina /Maren R. Niehoff --Unreportable tokens, speech representation and conventions of textual composition /Donna Shalev --Part II. A. Drama: Text. Boughs and daggers : reading "hand" in Aeschylus' Suppliant Women and the Danaid Trilogy /Christos C. Tsagalis --Episodic tragedy, Antigone, and indeterminacy at the end of Euripides' Phoenissae /Thomas Hubbard --Dramatic contexts and literary fiction in Euripides, Heracles 1340-46 /Justina Gregory --Fictions of space from Old to New Comedy /Niall W. Slater --B. Drama: Intertext. The Sphinx : A Greco-Phoenician hybrid /Carolina Lopez-Ruiz --Inviting Socrates : the prologues of Republic and the two Symposia /Gabriel Danzig