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Index

Prolegomena: A classical text of Homer in the making

Pⓢ1. The Homeric Koine Pⓢ2. Twin books about six ages of Homeric reception Pⓢ3. An evolutionary model Pⓢ4. Metaphors of rigidity and definitiveness Pⓢ5. Aristarchus and the Homeric Koine Pⓢ6. Homeric koinai and khariesterai Pⓢ7. “Vertical” variation and the numerus versuum Pⓢ8. “Horizontal” variation Pⓢ9. Homeric editions attributed to Aristarchus Pⓢ10. The base text of Aristarchus Pⓢ11. The kharis of the “real ” Homer Pⓢ12. The Koine standard reaffirmed Pⓢ13. Reading out loud the Homeric Koine Pⓢ14. Reading Homer out loud to Aristarchus Pⓢ15. Conclusions: the Homeric Koine as a classical text Footnotes

Chapter One. Homer the Classic in the Age of Virgil

1ⓢ1.An esthetics of rigidity 1ⓢ2. Sculpting a perfect Homeric moment 1ⓢ3. Variations on a perfect Homeric moment 1ⓢ4. Metaphors of unchangeability 1ⓢ5. Homeric poetry as visual art 1ⓢ6. A rethinking of terms for artistic imagination 1ⓢ7. Virgil’s sculpting of a perfect Homeric moment 1ⓢ8. A statue of Athena in the epic Cycle and beyond 1ⓢ9. Ovidian variations on a theme of rigidity in art 1ⓢ10. A poet’s lasting response to permanent beauty 1ⓢ11. Virgil as theatrical spectacle 1ⓢ12. Virgil’s imperial poetry 1ⓢ13. Sunt lacrimae rerum 1ⓢ14. The sorrows of Andromache Footnotes

Chapter Two. Homer the Classic in the Age of Callimachus

2ⓢ1. An esthetics of fluidity 2ⓢ2. Homeric humnos 2ⓢ3. The fluidity of the humnos 2ⓢ4. Perfecting the humnos 2ⓢ5. Homer’s hymnic encounter with the Delian Maidens 2ⓢ6. Homer as theatrical spectacle 2ⓢ7. The naming of Homer 2ⓢ8. Homer’s perfect humnos 2ⓢ9. A prototype of humnos in the Poetics of Aristotle 2ⓢ10. Convergences and divergences in the meanings of humnos and prooimion 2ⓢ11. The poetics of metabasis in the Homeric Hymns 2ⓢ12. An eternal deferral of epic in a humnos by Callimachus 2ⓢ13. The fluidity of the Homeric tradition in the age of Callimachus 2ⓢ14. Variations on a theme of Ōkeanos in the Homeric text of Crates 2ⓢ15. Homerus Auctus 2ⓢ16. Principles of anomaly and analogy in editing Homer 2ⓢ17. Homer and the neoterics 2ⓢ18. Variations on a theme of Ōkeanos in the Homeric text of Zenodotus 2ⓢ19. Variations in the consequences of hymnic metabasis 2ⓢ20. Theocritus and the mystical circularity of the song of Thyrsis 2ⓢ21. Redefining the humnos 2ⓢ22. The poetics of the humnos in Homeric poetry 2ⓢ23. The poetics of metabasis in the making of epic 2ⓢ24. The third song of Demodokos 2ⓢ25. The sorrows of Andromache Footnotes

Chapter Three. Homer the Classic in the Age of Plato

3ⓢ1. The Koine of Homer as a model of stability 3ⓢ2. Homer and the Panathenaic standard 3ⓢ3. The Homerus Auctus as a predecessor of the Homeric Koine 3ⓢ4. The Panathenaic standard as highlighted by Orphic deviations 3ⓢ5. Plato’s attempt to discredit the Panathenaic standard 3ⓢ6. Orpheus and Homer 3ⓢ7. Hippias the sophist as master of the Panathenaic standard 3ⓢ8. Sophistic powers of total recall 3ⓢ9. Rhapsodic powers of total recall 3ⓢ10. Panathenaic Homer and the Koine of Aristarchus 3ⓢ11. The sorrows of Andromache Footnotes

Chapter Four. Homer the Classic in the Age of Pheidias

Conclusions

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