Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Homer and comparative mythology
  • Formula and meter: the oral poetics of Homer
  • Hesiod and the poetics of pan-Hellenism
  • Patroklos, concepts of afterlife, and the Indic triple fire
  • Death of Sarpedon and the question of Homeric uniqueness
  • The King and the hearth: six studies of sacral vocabulary relating to the fireplace
  • Thunder and the birth of humankind
  • Sema and Noesis: the hero's tomb and the "reading' of symbols in Homer and Hesiod
  • Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: " reading" the symbols of Greek lyric
  • On the death of Actaeon
  • Poetry and the ideology of the polis: the symbolism of apportioning meat
  • Mythical foundations of Greek society and the concept of the city-state
  • Unattainable wishes: the restricted range of an idiom in epic diction.