Contents
Issue 34.2 (Spring 2007)
Special Issue: Reading Homer in the 21st Century
Abstracts ...........................................................................................iv-vii
Homer and the Oral Tradtion
John Miles Foley ...................................................................................1
"Reading" Homer Through Oral Tradition
Pura Nieto Hernández..........................................................................29
Reading Homer in the 21st Century Interpreting Homer’s Texts
Reading Homer in the 21st Century Interpreting Homer’s Texts
Damian Stocking .................................................................................56
Res Agens: Towards an Ontology of the Homeric Self
Matthew Clark .....................................................................................85
Poulydamas and Hector
John B. Vlahos ....................................................................................................................................107
Homer’s Odyssey, Books 19 and 23: Early Recognition; A Solution to the Enigmas of Ivory and Horns,
and the Test of the Bed
and the Test of the Bed
Scott Richardson .................................................................................................................................132
Conversation in the Odyssey
Joe Wilson ..........................................................................................................................................150
Homer and the Will of Zeus
Kalliopi Nikolopoulou ..........................................................................................................................174
Geography and English Identity in the Middle Ages
Annette Lucia Giesecke ......................................................................................................................194
Learning Lessons from the Trojan War: Briseis and the Theme of Force
Scott A. Belsky ....................................................................................................................................216
The Poet Who Sings Through Us: Homer’s Influence in Contemporary Western Culture
Casey Dué ...........................................................................................................................................229
Geography and English Identity in the Middle Ages
Mihoko Suzuki ....................................................................................................................................263
Rewriting the Odyssey in the Twenty-First Century: Mary Zimmerman’s Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad
Kostas Myrsiades .................................................................................................................................279
Reading The Gunfighter as Homeric Epic
Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................302
