INDEX

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Abydos

Achaea

Achilles

Briseis and

death of

ghost of

hair of

hands of

lyre and

meeting of Hector and

shield of

steppe culture and

Addison, Joseph

Aegean Sea

aegis

Aegisthus

Aeneas

Aeschylus, Oresteia

Aesop

Afghanistan

Africa

Agamemnon

Briseis and

death of

Agricola, Georgius

Ahhiyawa

Ajax

Alaksandu

Albania

Alcinous

Alexander the Great

Alexandria

Ptolemaic library

alphabet

Phoenician

amber

amethyst

Amurru

anagnōrsis

Anatolia

Andalusia

Andromachē

animals

sacrifices

See also specific animals

Antiopē

Aphrodite

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apollo

Apulia

Aramaeans

Arcadia

archaeology

Buchner and

Petrie and

Shaft Graves

Troy

Ulu Burun ship wreck

Arēs

Argolid

Argos

Aristarchus

Aristotle

Rhetoric

Armenia

Arnold, Matthew

arsenic

Artemis

Ashnan

Asinē

Astyanax

Atē

Athene

Athens

Atlantic Ocean

Atreus

Attarissiya

Attica

Auk

axes

Azores

azurite

Babylon

Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space

Baghdad

Bagot, Reverend Walter

Bajgorić, Halil

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de

Balkans

Baltic Sea

Barlow, Joel

Bašić, Ibrahim

baths

of Circe

beach

leaving a

beauty

of warriors

Belarus

Bellerophon

Benbecula

Bentley, Richard

Beowulf

Berlin

Bible

birds

Odysseus visited by

Black Sea

blackwood

Blackwood’s Magazine

Blake, William

Blegen, Carl

blindness

Boardman, John

Bogaskale

Bosnia

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

bow and arrow

Briseis

British Museum

bronze

spearheads

tin-copper alloy

weaponry

Bronze Age

cross-continental journeys

European

iron in

Ulu Burun ship wreck

weaponry

White Horse

Broodbank, Cyprian

Buchner, Giorgio

Bulgaria

burial mounds

Butler, Samuel

Byblos

Byzantium

editions of Iliad

caesura

Calabria

calcite

Calliope

Calvert, Frank

Calypso

Campania

Canaan

cannibalism

canoes

Caravaggio

Carthage

Caspian Sea

Caspian steppe

cattle

Caucasus

Cebriones

Celts

coins

Chalcondyles, Demetrius

Chania

Chapman, George

chariots

races

technology

childbirth

children

graves of

of Troy

China

Chinflón

Chios

choreia

Christianity

cinnabar

Circe

city-states

Clarke, Charles Cowden

classicism

Clytemnestra

coinage

Celtic

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Collins, Tim

Columbus, Christopher

Congreve, William

Constant, Benjamin, Adolphe

Constantinople

copper

mining

copying texts

Corinth

Cornwall

Cortés

cosmology

Cowper, William

crafts

creed

cremation

Crete

writing

crocus-cloth

Crusades

cummings, e. e.

cuneiform

Cyclades

Cyclops

Cyprus

Czech Republic

dactyls

Daedalus

dance

Dante

Danube River

David and Goliath

dawn, departures at

Dead Sea Scrolls

death

burial mounds

Egypt and

funeral pyre

Iliad and

masks

meadow of

of Patroclus

Pithekoussai graves

thump

threat of

visit to Hades

See also graves

dedmēto

Deïphobus

Delos

Delphi

Demodocus

Denmark

departures

for Hades

De Quincey, Thomas

destiny

diadems

Diodorus Siculus

Diomedes

dogs

metal

Dolōn

Dörpfeld, Wilhelm

doupein

dromoi

drought

Dué, Casey

Easton, Donald

ebony

economies

Egypt

Alexandrian Homer

gold

Hawara Homer

poverty in

scarabs

Sinuhe and

eisos

Elba

elegy

Eliot, T. S.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Elpēnōr

Emporio

Enlightenment

epics

hexameters

spoken

See also specific epics

Escorial

Eteocles

Etruria

Euboea

Euphorbus

European Bronze Age

Eurycleia

Eustathius

Evans, Arthur

Examiner

Extremadura

stone stelae

Fagles, Robert

Odyssey translation

faience beads

Fairhurst, George

fame

farming

Neolithic

Faroes

fate

fathers

missing

Fayum Depression

Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Finucane, Ronald

fish

Florence

Laurentian Library

flowers

food

horse as

France

frescoes

Pylos

funeral pyre

for Patroclus

Gaelic

galena

Galicia

gangs

Iliad and

St. Louis

gardens

Gautier, Théophile

Gaza

Genesis

Germany

World War II

Nazi

ghosts

Gibraltar

Gilgamesh

Glaucus

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

gold

Celtic coin

cups

jewelry

of Troy

Goliath

Goncourt, Edmond de

Goncourt, Jules de

Gorgythion

government

grains

grammar

graves

of children

horses and

masks

mounds

Pithekoussai

Shaft

single burials

Sintashta

Stone Age

Thapsos

weapons in

Great Britain

World War II

Greece

Bronze Age

Dark Ages

Hellenistic

Iron Age

Mycenaen

origin of Greek consciousness

Greek

classical

early written

first printed Homer

Hawara Homer

Linear B

Gulf of Argolis

guslars

Hades

departure for

Odysseus and

hair

blonde

dark

of Goliath

of warriors

hands

Harrison, Richard

Harvard University

Hattusa tablets

Hawara Homer

Hayasa

Heaney, Seamus

Hebrews

Hebrides

Hecabē

Hecamēdē

Hector

death of

hair of

hands of

meeting of Achilles and

Heidelberg

Helen

jewels of

weaving and

helmets

Hephaestus

Hera

Heracles

heraldry

Hermes

Herodotus

heroism

loneliness and

warrior

hexameters

hieroglyphs

hinges

Hippothoos

Hisarlik

Hitler, Adolf

Hittites

homelessness

Homer

Alexandrian library

Analyst vs. Unitarian debate

as blind outsider

departures

early manuscripts

Fagles translations of

finding

first printed Greek

formulas in

gang behavior

hands and

Hawara

hexameters

horses and

Keats and

loving

Magny dinners on

medieval manuscripts

mirror images of

multiple

name

as oral text

Parry on

phrases

Pope translation of

Question

reality and

repetition

seeking

steppes and

structure of

transitional

Troy and

unknowability of

Venetus A

Villoison edition

visit to Hades

written

See also Iliad; Odyssey

Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo

Homeridae

honey

honor

horses

Bronze Age White Horse

burials

steppes and

Trojan

Huelva

Hugo, Victor

humanism

Hungary

Hunt, Leigh

hunter-gatherers

Huqqana

Hutchinson, Sara

Iberian stone stelae

Icarus

Iceland

Iliad

Alexandrian library

Byzantine editions

Chapman translation

early manuscripts

gang behavior

Greek vs. Trojan treatment of women in

hands in

Hawara

hexameters

horses and

internal contradictions

Lattimore translation

medieval

as oral text

Pope’s preface to

Pope translation

as precursor to Odyssey

reality of

steppes and

suffering and death

Venetus A

Villoison edition

See also specific characters and themes

immortality

India

Ingul River

Ion

Ionian Sea

Ios

Iphidamas

Iphimedeia

Iraq

Iraq War

Ireland

iron

in Bronze Age

pyrites

Iron Age

Isaiah

Ischia

Istanbul

Italy

Renaissance

Ithaca

Odysseus returns to

ivory

Jacob

Jacobs, Bruce

javelins

Jesus Christ

jewelry

of Troy

Jews

Johnson, Dr.

Jonah

Kadmos

Kafkalas, Andrea

Kagamunas

Karagod

Kazakhstan

Keats, John

Endymion

Homer and

Homer Sonnet

Kent

kleos aphthiton

knights

Knockers

Knossos

Kokytus

Korfmann, Manfred

Kreipe, General

Kundera, Milan

kurgans

Laertes

lances

language

Hittite

Homeric phrases

Proto-Indo-European

steppes and

See also specific languages; vocabulary

lapis lazuli

Latin

Latium

Lattimore, Richmond

Iliad translation

Odyssey translation

law

lazurite

Lebanon

Leipzig

Lesbos

Leucothea

Levant

libations to goddesses

Linear A

Linear B

Lithuania

lochos

Logue, Christopher

London

loneliness

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Lord, Albert

Los Angeles gangs

love

Homer

Lycaon

Lycia

lyre

Macdonald, Duncan

Madduwatta

Madrid

magic

Magny dinners

malachite

maps:

Bronze Age world

world of the ancient Greeks

Marathon

Mariya

masks

burial

Massalia

McMillan, Angus

Medédović, Avdo

Medici family

Mediterranean

Megara

Melanthius

Meles

Melesigenes

memorials

stone stelae

memory

Menelaus

Meriones

Mertz, Henriette

Mesopotamia

metals

Bronze Age

bronze spearheads

mining

Ulu Burun ship wreck

See also specific metals

metaphysics

Michelangelo

Middle Ages

Homer manuscripts

Milan

milk

Milton, John

Paradise Lost

mines

ghosts

Minoan civilization

Mnemosyne

modernism

modern voyages

money

Mongols

Monte Vico

Moscow

Moss, Billy

Motion, Andrew

mountains

Mount Epomeo

Muir, Edwin

Müller, Max

Munich

Murray, A. T.

Muses

music

of hexameters

lyre

sung poems

Mycenae

Shaft Graves

Myrine

Myrmidons

Naples

Nastes

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

nature

Nausicaa

Nazism

Neoptolemos

Nestor

Newfoundland

Nikshitch, Bégan Lyútsa

Nile River

Nineveh

nomadism

North Sea

Norway

nostalgia

Notopoulos, James

Odessa

Odysseus

arrives home

departures

hands of

raft of

at sea

Trojan War and

visit to Hades

Odyssey

Chapman translation

departures

early manuscripts

Fagles translation

hexameters

internal contradictions

Lattimore translation

medieval

as oral text

preexistence of Iliad and

reality and

sea voyages

visit to Hades

See also specific characters and themes

Oedipus

oil

jars and pots

Old Testament

olives

Olympus

Troy and

oral text

Homer as

Orchomenos

Orion

Orkney

ostrich eggshells

Oswald, Alice

Ovid

Oxford University

Bodleian Library

Pacific Ocean

Paine, Thomas

palaces

Palamēdēs

Palmyra

Panathenaia

papyri

Paris

hair of

Paris (city)

Magny dinners

Parisii tribe

Parry, Milman

composition-in-performance method

Homeric studies

Patroclus

death of

Peloponnese

Penelope

return of Odysseus

weaving

Penguin

Persephone

Petrarch

Petrie, William Flinders

Phaeacians

Phereclus

Philistines

Phoenicians

alphabet

phrases, Homer

Pieria

pigs

Pithekoussai

pottery

Plato

Republic

Pleiades

Plutarch

Poland

polytlas

pontos atrygetos

Pope, Alexander

preface to Iliad

translation of Homer

Porter, James I.

Portugal

Poseidon

pottery

crater

gray-and-ocher

Pithekoussai

shards

Pound, Ezra

preclassicism

prēktēres

Priam

hands of

treasures of

Proto-Indo-Europeans

psyches

Ptolemies

Pylos

Pyriphlegethon

Pythia

Quakers

quartzite

rape

reality

Homer and

Renaissance

Renan, Ernest

repetition

Retjenu

Rexroth, Kenneth

Rhodes

Rieu, E. V.

Rio Tinto

Romania

Rome

ancient

Biblioteca Nazionale

Rorty, Richard

Russia

Sainte-Beuve, Charles

St. Louis gangs

Saint-Victor, Comte de

Samothrace

Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín

Sardinia

Sarpedon

Saul

Saxons

Sayce, Archibald

Scandinavia

scarabs

Scheria

Schliemann, Heinrich

Schliemann, Sophia

scholia

Schulten, Adolf

Fontes Hispaniae Antiquae

Scotland

scribes

Scylla and Charybdis

Scythians

sea

departures

evil

-as-land

Odysseus at

sailing ships and

storms

unharvestable

vengeful

seals

Seferis, George

Septuagint manuscripts

sex

Sfakia

Shaft Graves

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet

sheep

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

shells

Sherratt, Andrew and Susan

shields

of Achilles

ships

departures

modern voyages

navigation by stars

Odysseus at sea

sailing

technology

Ulu Burun wreck

Sicily

Sidon

silver

Simpson, Colton

Sinai Desert

Sinopē

Sintashta

Sirens

Sistine Chapel

sky

stars

Skye

slaves

women

Smyrna

Socrates

Sokos

Sontag, Susan

Sophocles

Sorbonne

South Uist

Spain

mines

stone stelae

Sparta

spearheads, bronze

Spenser, Edmund

Faerie Queene

spices

spindles

spirals

spondees

stars

Steele, Richard

stelae, stone

steppes

Achilles and

burial mounds

Homer and

horses and

language and

Stone Age

stone axes

Stonehenge

stone stelae

Styx

sublime

Sumer

Sumerian poetry

Sweden

Swift, Jonathan

Switzerland

swords

Syracuse

Syria

tablets, writing

Hattusa

Linear B

Taine, Hippolyte

Tale of Sinuhe, The

Tambakis, Lefteris

taxes

technology, ship

Telemachus

textiles

Thanet

Thapsos

Thebes

Thessalonica

Thessaly

Thomas, Martin

Thrace

timber

time

tin

Tiresias

Tiryns

Tocharian B

Tolo

Tolstoy, Leo

Tories

trade

Pithekoussai

translations

Chapman

Fagles

Lattimore

Trojan Horse

Trojan War

animality of

gang behavior

suffering and death

See also Iliad

Troy

archaeology

Greek governance of

Homer and

Olympus and

treasures of

weaving

women of

See also Trojan War

Turkestan

Turkey

Tyre

Tyro

Ukraine

Ulu Burun ship wreck

unliftable cup

Ur

Ural Mountains

Uruk

Usatovo

Vatican

Venetus A

Venice

Biblioteca Marciana

Ventris, Michael

Vermeule, Emily

Vesuvius

Vienna

Vikings

Villoison, Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d’Ansse de

Iliad edition

Virgil

Aeneid

vocabulary

Vujnović, Nikola

Wales

wandering

warriors

Bronze Age

hair of

hands of

heroism

horses and

lyre of

Proto-Indo-European

shields

stone stelae

Trojan War and

See also specific warriors; Trojan War; weaponry

water

baths

See also sea

weaponry

bronze

in graves

rape and

See also specific weapons; warriors

weaving

Weil, Simone

“The Poem of Force”

wind

sailing ships and

wine

jugs and cups

winnowing fan

Wolf, Friedrich August

Homeric Question

women

childbirth

graves of

Greek vs. Trojan treatment of

Helen

Hittite

hung by Odysseus

Penelope

Proto-Indo-European

slaves

theft of

of Troy

weaving

See also specific women and goddesses

Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own

Wordsworth, William

world of the ancient Greeks

World War II

cryptography

Wright, Richard

writing

early Greek

Homer

Linear A

Linear B

Phoenician alphabet

tablets

Xanthos

Yeats, William Butler

Young, Douglas

Yugoslav guslars

Zacos, George

Zenodotus

Zeus