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Book SynopsisIn this book, war, intercourse, and homecoming are put forward as central themes in the two Homeric epics. All three themes have their own semiotics and operate in different ways in the Illiad and the Odyssey thereby determing their myth and plot, their narrative syntax and, more generally their poetic and humanistic character.
Trade ReviewTaken together, the essays in this book are a thematically interrelated series of incisive and meticulous forays into the poetics of the Homeric epics. Since most of them were previously available only in modern Greek and in rather inaccessible publications, we should be very grateful for their collection and translation in this volume, which an Index Locorum renders still more useful. -- James P. Holoka, Eastern Michigan University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Iliadic War Chapter 2 The Space of Homilia and Its Signs in the Iliad and theOdyssey Chapter 3 The Theme of Conjugal Homilia in the Odyssey Chapter 4 The Theme of Homecoming in the Iliad: Signification-Varioations-Function Chapter 5 The Heroic Myth and Its Lyrical Reconstruction Chapter 6 Conjugal Homilia: From the Iliad to Sophocles' Ajax Chapter 7 Bard-Narrator-Poet: Internal Poetics in the Odyssey Chapter 8 Problems of the Homeric Helen Chapter 9 Latent References to the Iliad in the Odyssey Chapter 10 Odysseus' First False Account in the Odyssey: Model and Variations
