Dr. Rouse found his Aegean sailors still telling yarns from the Odyssey though time had worn out Odysseus’ name, down through O’ysseus, already latin Ulysses, to current Elias, identified with the prophet. [1] My title begins with a citation from Dante, quoted in the call… Read more
Αὐτὸ μὲν γὰρ διὰ τὴν τοῦ ποιητοῦ λογιότητα ἐκ μὴ ὄντος ἐστὶ τρόπον τινά, ἡ δὲ ἀληθὴς Τροία τῇ τοῦ χρόνου φορᾷ ἐκ τοῦ ὄντος ἦλθεν εἰς τὸ μηδέν, ἀφανισθεῖσα. Thanks to the poet’s eloquence, the Achaean Wall in some way is, having emerged out of nothing, while the real… Read more
I propose to describe a way to do research on Homer. The description includes more than just procedures. It also includes an account of the principles and assumptions behind them and examples of their use. It’s as well to state at the outset that the object of study for the… Read more
“Habent sua fata libelli”, Martial remarks somewhere. A few years ago I stumbled across the Suda On Line . I was very taken with the idea that distributed labor could, with relatively modest individual effort, produce results of substantial collective benefit. I… Read more
Setting the Stage In the seventeenth century the star of the once mighty Republic of Venice was waning. Although the state would survive until its capitulation to Napoleon in 1797 its glory days were over. [1] Several factors contributed to the state’s decline. In the… Read more
There has been a growing trend in Homeric studies to investigate the connections between Homeric epic and the so-called ‘Ancient Near East’. In this paper I reflect on the nature of this trend. What is at stake in reading a ‘Near Eastern’ Homer in the current political and cultural climate?… Read more
Based on what Armstrong and Dué, in the invitation to this conference, have termed the Wolfian paradigm of Homeric research and its intersection with the preoccupations of the Romantic period (ballads; nature; language; nation; nostalgia; modernity), this paper examines the role of Homer within the horizon of European Philhellenism (in… Read more
Epic, as a genre, is defined using many different criteria, from mode of discourse (although some epics are not predominantly narrative), length (though some epics are short), relationship to other genres (though not all epics incorporate minor genres), subject matter (though not all epics involve war or travel), theological framework… Read more
Abstract The general topic of this paper is the reception of the Homeric poems in mainland Greece after their substantial formation in Ionia in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BC. The case in point is Sparta in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BC in the aftermath… Read more
Article Contents Summary What is a multitext and why is it valuable? The scope of the project and how it will be achieved The multitext edition as a research and teaching tool … Read more
