VI. MODERN HOMEROLOGY


There exist today an enormous number of scholars (perhaps several hundreds specializing only in Homer) who have contributed with diverse studies to a wide spectrum of researches. Though this is not the place for a bibliography of these studies, the kind reader will be able to measure the scope of these researches in the following summary of A Bibliography Of Homeric Scholarship, Preliminary Edition 1930-1970 by David W. Packard and Tania Meyers, Udena Publications, Malibu, California, 1974.

1. LANGUAGE

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1.0
1.1 Syntax
1.2 Morphology
1.3 Vocabulary (groups of words)
1.4 Abstract nouns
1.5 Onomastics
1.6 Linear b
1.7 Homeric etymologies (by the Poet)
1.8 Early and late language

2. METER
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3. POETICS

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3.0
3.1 Sound patterns
3.2 Imagery
3.3 Rhetoric
3.4 Paratactic style
3.5 Ring—Composition
3.6 Plot structure
3.7 Unity
3.8 The proems
3.9 Motif
3.10 Simile
3.11 Metaphor
3.12 Literary use of the gods
3.13 Comic
3.14 Irony
3.15 Characterization
3.16 Generic composition
3.17 Gnomic
3.18 Paradeigma
3.19 Recognition scenes
3.20 Catalogue poetry
3.21 Battle scenes
3.22 Repetitions

4. COMPOSITION

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4.0
4.1 The date of composition
4.2 The man "Homer"
4.3 El bard in the poems
4.4 The relationship of the Iliad aon Odyssey
4.5 The division into books (cantos)
4.6 Analytic criticism
4.7 Inconsistencies
4.8 The art of writing
4.9 The "Homeric Question"
4.10 Oral Poetry
4.11 Epithets
4.12 Formulas
4.13 Enjambement
4.14 Performance
4.15 Antecedents
4.15.1 Folk tales
4.15.2 Near Eastern poetry
4.15.3 Indo—European poetry
4.15.4 Mycenaean poetry
4.15.5 Early greek epics
4.16 Comparative epic
4.16.1 Yugoslavian
4.16.2 Beowulf
4.16.3 Nibelungenlied
4.16.4 Indic
4.16.5 Old testament
4.17 Miscellaneous myths
5. ANCIENT SCHOLARSHIP
 34 2 4 2 6 15 22 4 2 8 4 12 5.0
5.1 Peisistratus
5.2 Los Alexandrians
5.2.1 Zenodotus
5.2.2 Aristarchus 5.3 Allegorical interpretation 5.4 Scholia 5.5 Byzantine 5.6 Eustathius 5.7 Tzetzes 5.8 The ancient lexica 5.9 The ancient lives of Homer
6. ARCHAELOGY
 19 6 10 4 8 4 19 7 7 13 6.1 Architecture 6.2 Utensils 6.3 Armor 6.4 Chariots 6.5 Ships 6.6 Metals 6.7 Dress 6.8 Flora 6.9 Fauna 6.10 Burial customs
7. ART
 8 26 - 36 15 7 6 17 7.1 Minoan and mycenaean art 7.2 Art near the time of Homer 7.3 Depictions of Homeric scenes 7.3.1 Greek art 7.3.2 Roman art 7.3.3 Ilustrated manuscripts 7.3.4 Medieval and modern art 7.4 Statues of "Homer"
8. HISTORY
 21 8 11 11 7 6 9 4 5 8 8.0 8.1 Near East 8.2 Egypt 8.3 Hittite 8.4 Mycenaean 8.5 Phoenicia 8.6 Cimmerians 8.7 Contemporary with Homer 8.8 Greek Nationalism 8.9 Modern Greece
9. GEOGRAPHY
 85 26 21 9 5  23 4 9.0 9.1 Troy 9.2 Ithaca 9.3 Pylos 9.4 Crete 9.5 Phaeacia 9.6 The greek camp at Troy
10. HOMERIC SOCIETY
 31 6 8 13 6 1 3 11 6 4 14 11 3 8 29 11 4 5 3 5 4 10.1 Social 10.1.1 Domestic 10.1.2 Women 10.1.3 Marriage 10.1.4 Kinship 10.1.5 Education 10.1.6 Music 10.1.7 Athletics 10.1.8 Hospitality 10.1.9 Gift—giving 10.2 Political 10.2.1 Kingship 10.2.2 Assembly 10.2.3 Warface 10.2.4 Legal 10.3 Economic 10.3.1 Slavery 10.3.2 Agriculture 10.3.3 Horses 10.3.4 Dogs 10.3.5 Fish
11. PSYCOLOGY AND WORLD—VIEW
  36 5 4 7 9 17 27 9 2 11 8 7 12 20 7 3 8 7 10 7 11.1 History of ideas 11.2 "Primitive" world view 11.3 "Indo—European" world view 11.4 "Mediterranean" world view 11.5 Tragic 11.6 Fate 11.7 Moral 11.8 The hero and the heroic code 11.9 Justicie 11.10 Psychology 11.11 Soul 11.12 Dream 11.13 Science 11.13.1 Medicine 11.13.2 Astronomy 11.13.3 Meteorology 11.13.4 Nature 11.13.5 Numerology 11.13.6 Magic 11.13.7 The marvelous
12. RELIGION
  51 7 2 2 3 5 4 9 2 - 2 9 3 1 13 8 13 1 1 1 4 4 5 1 5 1 2 11 12.0 (See also 3.12) 12.1 Prayer 12.2 Divination 12.3 Omen 12.4 Oracle 12.5 Hero cult 12.6 Rites of passage 12.7 Afterlife (See also 6.10) 12.8 Olympus 12.9 Individual Gods 12.9.1 Aphrodite 12.9.2 Apollo 12.9.3 Ares 12.9.4 Artemis 12.9.5 Athena 12.9.6 Calypso 12.9.7 Circe 12.9.8 Demeter 12.9.9 Dionysus 12.9.10 Helios 12.9.11 Hephaestus 12.9.12 Hera 12.9.13 Hermes 12.9.14 Nereids 12.9.15 Poseidon 12.9.16 Proteus 12.9.17 Thetis 12.9.18 Zeus
13. HEROES AND HEROINES
  5 - 30 10 2 2 5 10 1 3 2 7 1 3 21 6 2 2 14 1 25 2 1 1 11 4 22 6 1 1 31 5 6 3 21 4 1 3 1 2 5 9 6 1 13.1 Genealogy 13.2 Individuals 13.2.1 Achilles 13.2.2 Aeneas 13.2.3 Aeolus 13.2.4 Alcinous 13.2.5 Agamemnon 13.2.6 Ajax 13.2.7 Amazons 13.2.8 Andromache 13.2.9 Autolycus 13.2.10 Bellerophon 13.2.11 Calchas 13.2.12 Clytemnestra 13.2.13 Cyclops 13.2.14 Diomedes 13.2.15 Elpenor 13.2.16 Eumaeus 13.2.17 Hector 13.2.18 Hecuba 13.2.19 Helen 13.2.20 Iros 13.2.21 Laertes 13.2.22 Melantheus 13.2.23 Meleager 13.2.24 Menelaos 13.2.25 Nausicaa 13.2.26 Nestor 13.2.27 Niobe 13.2.28 Nireus 13.2.29 Odysseus 13.2.30 Orestes 13.2.31 Paris 13.2.32 Patroclus 13.2.33 Penelope 13.2.34 Phoenix 13.2.35 Philoctetes 13.2.36 Priam 13.2.37 Protesilaos 13.2.38 Sarpedon 13.2.39 The suitors of Penelope 13.2.40 Telemachus 13.2.41 Thersites 13.2.42 Theseus
14. INDIVIDUAL EPISODES
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14.1 Episodes in the Iliad
   14.1.1 Diapeira
   14.1.2 Catalogue of ships
   14.1.3 View from the wall
   14.1.4 Glaucus-Diomedes
   14.1.5 Parting of Hector and Andromache
   14.1.6 The achaean wall
   14.1.7 Embassy to Achilles
   14.1.8 Doloneia
   14.1.9 Shield of Achilles
   14.1.10 End of Iliad
14.2 Episodes in the Odyssey
   14.2.1 Telemacheia
   14.2.2 Ares and Aphrodite
   14.2.3 Aventures
   14.2.4 Laestrygonians
   14.2.5 Sirens
   14.2.6 Nekyia
   14.2.7 The lies of Odysseus
   14.2.8 The trial of the bow
   14.2.9 The slaying of the suitors
   14.2.10 The hanging of the maids
   14.2.11 The end of the Odyssey
14.3 Episodes outside of the two poems
   14.3.1 Wooden horse
   14.3.2 Argonauts
15. INFLUENCE
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15.1 Epic cycle
15.2 Hesiod
15.3 Contest of Homer and Hesiod
15.4 Lyric
15.5 Classical greek authors
15.6 Hellenistic authors
   15.6.1 Apollonius
15.7 Roman authors
   15.7.1 Vergil
15.8 Quintus
15.9 Medieval and modern authors
16. MODERN SCHOLARSHIP
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9		 16.1 General Introductions
16.2 Bibliographical surveys
16.3 Textual studies
   16.3.1 Papyri
   16.3.2 Ancient Quotations
   16.3.3 Manuscripts
   16.3.4 On editing the poems
16.4 On translating the poems
16.5 Modern Lexica



 
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