Chapter 1. The Base-Level Setting: The Battlefield Reflecting the tripartite structure of Iliadic story space, the plain of Troy represents an extended area lying between the Achaean camp and the city of Troy. [1] Despite the lack of description, it can be… Read more
Chapter 2. Framing Spaces The Achaean Camp, Troy, and the World of the Immortals As we saw in chapter 1, the base-level space of the battlefield is part of a set of framing spaces that are deployed around and above it. The Achaean camp and the… Read more
Conclusion The Education of Cyrus is a simple narrative, but the Theory of Leadership that informs it is complex and often difficult to untangle. In the course this study I have been exploring a number of claims about it. For one, we should not think of the… Read more
Bibliography Ambler, W., trans. 2001. The Education of Cyrus. Ithaca. Anderson, J. K. 1974. Xenophon. London. Azoulay, V. 2004a. “The Medo-Persian Ceremonial: Xenophon, Cyrus and the King’s Body.” In Tuplin 2004:147–17. ———. 2004b. Xénophon… Read more
Acknowledgments The research related to this monograph was funded by the European Commission through a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship (MOIF-CT 8030 “Pragmatics of Archaic Greek Literature,” 2005–2008). This grant gave me the wonderful opportunity to work at the Widener Library of Harvard University, and at the… Read more
Introduction. The Evocative Power of Word-Making [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… Read more
Chapter 1. The Cognitive Presence of the Absent Hero (Odyssey 1–4) The common thread of the first three chapters of this monograph is Odysseus and anaphoric references to him, in particular, (ἐ)κεῖνος and αὐτός. Rather than being merely technical and necessary linguistic devices that recall his person,… Read more
Chapter 2. Encounter, Visit, and Celebration: Homeric Layering (Odyssey 14) Table 1. Distribution of the occurrences of kenos with Odysseus as the referent in books 1 to 13 of the Odyssey. The following study of linguistic communication in Odyssey 14 started from an analysis of… Read more
Chapter 3. Odysseus Who?: Polyphonic Marks of Identity (Odyssey 15–24) The interlacing of Odysseus κεῖνος and Odysseus αὐτός in book fourteen can be seen as the result of different and overlapping perceptions of the Ithacan hero. The sense of his physical absence and of his desired presence—which… Read more
Chapter 4. Visual and Narrative Functions of αὐ-Discourse Markers An epigram assigned to Pollianus (first or second century AD) in the Greek Anthology begins as follows: Τοὺς κυκλίους τούτους τοὺς “αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα” λέγονταςμισῶ, λωποδύτας ἀλλοτρίων ἐπέων. Greek Anthology 11.130.1–2 These cyclic poets… Read more
