Part IV. Panathenaic Kitharôida 1. Kitharôidia Comes to Athens By the beginning of the fifth century BCE, and probably still earlier, Athens had become a premier market for kitharôidia, its Panathenaic mousikoi agônes overshadowing the long-established regional contests at the Spartan Carneia and rivaling the international allure of the Pythian games at Delphi. The city’s emergence as a citharodic center had everything to do with the… Read more
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4. Some Refractions of Homeric Anger in Athenian Drama T. R. Walsh Think of institutions and customs which have created … out of the enjoyment of anger perpetual vengeance. Nietzsche 1997:27 In aeschylus’ Suppliants, a particular kind of anger is identified through formulaic language that directly continues Homeric usage. In this play, the noun κότος (‘anger’), when it indicates the anger… Read more
5. Language about Achilles: Linguistic Frame Theory and the Formula in Homeric Poetics Charles Stocking The Formula: Some Theoretical Considerations Few if any scholars today can deny that the formula is an essential feature of Homeric verse. G. S. Kirk says in the preface to his Iliad commentary: The whole question of the formular, conventional or traditional component in the Homeric language is extremely… Read more
6. Skillful Symposia: Odyssey ix, Archilochus Fr. 2 West, and the Οἶνος Ἰσµαρικός Timothy Pepper The Origins of Objects Though the names and origins of characters tend to receive much attention, the identities and origins of named objects often do not. A good case in point is οἶνος Ἰσμαρικός, ‘Ismaric wine’, which is mentioned by name only twice in extant ancient literature before the first… Read more
7. Homeric Poetics and the Aeneid Curtis Dozier Everyone has always known that Vergil imitated Homer, but I do not think it is known whether Vergil thought he was imitating, on the one hand, the work of a blind bard who single-handedly recorded the best versions of the sack of Troy and the wandering of Odysseus, or, on the other hand, the result of a centuries-old… Read more
8. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo Translated by Rodney Merrill Translator’s Note My main aims in translating this hymn are similar to those I have set forth at some length in the translator’s introduction to my version of the Odyssey (Ann Arbor, 2002, 64–85), and more briefly in the introduction to my version of the Iliad (Ann Arbor, 2007, 1–22). They have to do with… Read more
Contributors CURTIS DOZIER received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin at Vassar College. His research focuses on the social context of Latin poetry: where and in what format Romans encountered it, what intellectual and social role it played in Roman society, and how Roman social practices shaped its interpretation. DAVID LARSEN is a Postdoctoral Associate… Read more
Acknowledgments This book was a long time in the making. I could neither have begun nor completed it without the understanding and support of my wonderful mother and father, Michele and Conrad, and my dear sisters, Suzanne and Stephanie. I am indebted for intellectual and moral support to all my colleagues and friends at Harvard University, University of Washington, Seattle, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and Rutgers… Read more
