Conclusions Cⓢ1. Five centuries of Homeric transmission C§1. I propose to outline here the overall chronology of Homeric transmission as I have reconstructed it in this book. The basis for my overall reconstruction is the Homeric Koine, which I have equated with the Panathenaic Homer in… Read more
Abbreviations BA – The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry = N 1979 EH – “The Epic Hero” = N 2005a GM – Greek Mythology and Poetics = N 1990b HQ – Homeric Questions = N 1996b… Read more
Foreword to the First Edition [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need… Read more
Foreword to the English Edition It is a special pleasure for me, almost ten years after finishing the manuscript of the first edition, to present this book in the English language and in lightly revised form. I have made a special attempt in my references to the… Read more
Translator’s Note This translation is long overdue, both in the sense that it has taken me a long time to complete it and in the sense that it is a book that I feel deserves a wider audience than the original German version may have found. It… Read more
Abbreviations A & A – Antike und Abendland AION – Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli AJP – American Journal of Philology ARV – J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, I–III, Oxford 19632 Austin… Read more
Introduction. The Choral Dance and Song as Ritual Action: A New Perspective Introductory Thoughts, Performativity, and the Twofold Composition of the Chorus To the extent that any kind of agreement can be attained in the irresolvable dispute about the origin of drama, this much is clear:… Read more
Chapter 1. The Comic Chorus in the Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes Using the approach demonstrated in the introduction I should now like to analyze the Thesmophoriazusae, a work that has been relatively little discussed. This comedy is particularly well-suited for showing the non-Aristotelian, pre-dramatic, and ritual character of… Read more
Chapter Two. Homer the Classic in the Age of Callimachus 2ⓢ1. An esthetics of fluidity 2§1 Homeric poetry imagines itself as rigid – that is, unchanging like the petrified serpent in Iliad II. That is what I was arguing in Chapter 1. But there is more… Read more
Chapter Three. Homer the Classic in the Age of Plato 3ⓢ1. The Koine of Homer as a model of stability 3§1 The Koine of Homer, as approximated by the base text of Aristarchus in the second century BCE, was more rigid and less fluid than the… Read more
