Morris S Fine | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Table of Contents



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations


I. EPOS AND LOGOS: HOMER AND TROY


- Malcolm WIENER, Homer and History: Old Questions, New Evidence


- Marianna NIKOLAIDOU and Dimitra KOKKINIDOU, Epos, History, Metahistory in Aegean Bronze Age Studies


- Maureen BASEDOW, Troy without Homer: the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Troad


- Sarah P. MORRIS, Troy Between Bronze and Iron Ages: Myth, Cult and Memory in a Sacred Landscape


II. EPOS AND EIKON: ART, POETRY AND WRITING


- John YOUNGER, The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song


- Robert LAFFINEUR, Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background?


- Edmund F. BLOEDOW, Homer and the depas amphikypellon


- L. Vance WATROUS, The Fleet Fresco, the Odyssey and Greek Epic Narrative


- Andreas VLACHOPOULOS, Mythos, Logos and Eikon. Motifs of Early Greek Poetry in the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3


III. WANAX AND BASILEUS: RULERSHIP IN HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY


- Pierre CARLIER, Are the Homeric Basileis ¿Big Men'?


- Thomas G. PALAIMA, Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View


- Bryan E. BURNS, Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture


- Brendan BURKE, Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age


- Eric H. CLINE and Assaf YASUR-LANDAU, Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative Art at Tel Kabri


IV. BEYOND ELITE: HOMERIC SOCIETY AND ARCHAEOLOGY


- Kim S. SHELTON, Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority of the Mycenaean Civilization


- Helene WHITTAKER, Sacrificial Practice and Warfare in Homer and in the Bronze Age


- Andrea GUZETTI, Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons For a Missed Encounter


V. EPOS AND MYTHOS


- Ernestine S. ELSTER, Odysseys Before Homer: Trade, Travel, and Adventure in Prehistoric Greece


- Cynthia S. COLBURN, The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean


- Fritz BLAKOLMER, The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting ¿Heroes¿ on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos?


- Massimo PERNA, Homer and the ¿Folded Wooden Tablets¿


VI. EPOS AND TOPOS: HOMERIC LANDSCAPES


- Oliver DICKINSON, Aspects of Homeric Geography


- Philip P. BETANCOURT, The Amnissos Cave: Poetry Meets Reality


- Aleydis VAN DE MOORTEL, The Site of Mitrou and East Lokris in ¿Homeric Times¿


- Anne P. CHAPIN and Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us


- Naya SGOURITSA, Myth, Epos and Mycenaean Attica: The Evidence Reconsidered