About the Contributors DEBORAH BOEDEKER, Professor of Classics at Brown University, works mainly on archaic and classical Greek poetry, historiography, and religion. Her publications include Aphrodite’s Entry into Greek Epic; Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion; and essays on Herodotus, lyric poetry,… Read more
Prolegomena: A classical text of Homer in the making Pⓢ1. The Homeric Koine P§1 Homer the Classic centers on ancient concepts of Homer as the author of a body of poetry that we know as the Iliad and Odyssey. This body of poetry, this corpus, became… Read more
Chapter One. Homer the Classic in the Age of Virgil 1ⓢ1.An esthetics of rigidity 1§1 The poetry of Virgil, I take it as a given, rivals that of Homer. Historically, Virgil the Classic even displaced Homer the Classic in the Latin culture of the Roman empire… Read more
Part 5. Pylos Chapter 12. Iliad 11 and the Location of Homeric Pylos {647|651} §5.1 In Iliad 11 Nestor tells how he first became a horseman when he defeated the enemy Epeians in battle: entering the battle on foot he immediately slew the leader of the… Read more
Chapter 13. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo and the Text of Iliad 11 {671|673} §5.12 The controversy over Pylos, whether or not it was in Elis, centered on Telemachus’s voyage home from Pylos to Ithaca in Odyssey 15. After bidding farewell to Nestor’s son Peisistratos and taking… Read more
Chapter 14. The Text of Iliad 11 in the Fifth Century BC {716|719} §5.39 There was a controversy in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BC as to the location of Homeric Pylos, whether north or south of the Alpheios River, and the battleground for this… Read more
Endnotes, Part 5 EN5.1 (Endnote to n5.1) {746|747} In Nestor’s story in Iliad 11, when he routs the Epeians and the Pylians turn for home, the language imitates the language used of the turning point in a chariot race, as exemplified in the chariot race of… Read more
Conclusion {780|781} Starting from an Indo-European comparison the foregoing study has followed out the consequences of that comparison for the Homeric poems, including a reconstruction of the circumstances in which the poems were first composed on a monumental scale. To reach this point in the argument the… Read more
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