Interpreting Iliad 10: Assumptions, Methodology, and the Place of the Doloneia within the History of Homeric Scholarship [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… Read more
The Poetics of Ambush The phrase “poetics of ambush” encapsulates our approach and our goals for this volume, so let us begin here by defining what we mean by it. When we speak of “poetics” we mean that we are proposing a theory of the structure and… Read more
Tradition and Reception: Rhesos, Dolon, and the Doloneia In this essay, we pair two concepts for investigation: the traditionality of the characters of Rhesos and Dolon and the reception of these characters and the story of the Doloneia in later works. Both concepts involve exploring what we… Read more
Iliad 10: A Multitextual Approach This volume takes a multitextual approach in its presentation of the transmitted texts of Iliad 10. We want to avoid presenting a critical text that obscures the multiformity of the oral tradition or is misleading about the historical realities about the textual… Read more
Iliad p609 (Mertens-Pack 864.1; P. Mich. 6972) Text based on the edition of Alexander Loney, after the edition of A. Edwards (1984) [1] This papyrus roll dates to the second century BCE and is a palimpsest, meaning that the papyrus had… Read more
Iliad p425 (Mertens-Pack 855.1; P. Berol. inv. 11911 + 17038 + 17048 + 21155) Text based on the edition of Bart Huelsenbeck and Alexander Loney, after the edition of H. Maehler; W. Müller; G. Poethke (1976) [1] The fragments of this… Read more
Iliad p46 (Mertens-Pack 658; P. Cairo Maspero inv. 67172-4 + P. Berol. inv. 10570 + P. Strasb. inv. G 1654 + P. Rein. 2.70) Text based on the edition of Alexander Loney, after the edition of J.-L. Fournet (1999) [1] This… Read more
Venetus A (Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822]) Marcianus Gr. Z. 454 (= 822) is the earliest extant, complete manuscript of the Iliad, and it is the one on which modern printed texts are primarily based. (The few medieval manuscripts that predate it contain commentary and paraphrases… Read more
Part III. Inventions of Terpander 1. Terpander between Myth and History Any study of kitharôidia must reckon closely with Terpander of Lesbos. While figures such as Orpheus, Philammon, and Amphion were routinely put forward as exponents of citharodic music in the mythic illud tempus—as Wilamowitz put… Read more
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… Read more
