Homer
the Homeric question
aoidos
formula; oral composition
rhapsode
panhellenism
dactylic hexameter
Iliad:
proem
menis
geras
time
kleos
Homeric simile
ecphrasis
akhos/penthos ("grief") Iliad characters:
Achilleus (akhos + laos)
Agamemnon
Menelaos
Diomedes
Aias (x2)
Odysseus
Helen
Priam
Paris/Alexandros
Hektor
Aineias/Aeneas
Sarpedon
Andromache
Hekabe/Hecuba
Briseis
Nestor
Patroklos
Meleager/Kleopatra (including the meaning of her name) /Phoinix
Iliad gods:
Muse
Thetis
Zeus
Hera
Athene
Aphrodite
Apollo
Poseidon
Hephaistos
Hermes (Argeïphontes) |
Odyssey:
nostos
polytropos Odysseus
Ithaka
the suitors
Helen's drug, ne-penthe
Phaiakians
underworld
ring composition
Cretan lies
Odysseus' scar
Odyssey people:
Odysseus (odussomai)
Outis "Nobody"
Telemachos
Penelope
Laertes
Phemios
Demodokos
Agamemnon/Orestes/Aigisthos/Klytaimestra
Eurykleia
Eumaios
Kalypso (kalupto)
Nausikaä, Alkinoös
Polyphemos
Autolykos |