Why Homer Matters
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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
Ves
uvius
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
The battle face of the Iliad: brutal, excluding, potent. One of the golden masks discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in the Shaft Graves at Mycenae in 1876.
Throbbing with desire for the Sirens, Odysseus, bound to his ship, resists the illusions of nostalgia. From a storage jar made in Athens in about 480 BC.
A 6th-century BC lekythos shows the tiny mosquito of a dead man’s soul half-hovering above his head. For Homer, life itself was rich, life-after-death terminally diminished.
“Battle was sweeter to them than the land of their fathers.” The sword-bearing charioteer, hunched over in his war-lust, drives against an enemy. A limestone stele from the Shaft Graves at Mycenae, ca. 1600 BC.
A gold drinking cup covered in the interlaced, bind-and-release spirals which entranced Homer’s world.
Scales in the Shaft Graves, made of gold so thin they could only have weighed the butterfly souls impressed on them.
His father’s son: tiny, dead Mycenaean princelings went to their graves encased in gold, front and back, a habit of reverencing the children of the great which goes back to the steppes.
Odysseus, half-dead from days at sea, emerges naked and a little rough, to find Nausicaa on shore. A 5th-century Athenian party cup shows the scene which, in Chapman’s translation, first convinced John Keats of Homer’s greatness.
The Iliad in Extremadura: a Late Bronze Age stele now in Badajoz shows a warrior, his sword and the giant shield marked with the concentric rings of the cosmos.
Metal heroes: Extremaduran figures with shield, swords, bow, spear and two objects central to the hero-complex: a bubble-handled mirror, for beauty, and a musical instrument, for epic song. Both men have large, “man-slaughtering-hands.”