Tom Walsh back to Homerizon Conference main page Homer’s “Fragments” It will soon be 80 years since Milman Parry demonstrated, startlingly, that oral and traditional style has deep consequences for those who seek to understand Homeric poetry and narrative. These consequences, nonetheless, have not lead to a settled view of the fundamental […]
Cashman Kerr Prince back to Homerizon Conference main page Poeta sovrano?: Horizons of Homer in Twentieth-Century English-Language Poetry My title begins with a citation from Dante, quoted in the call for papers for this Homerizon conference, then the balance of my title moves away from the Italian Trecento and towards a radically different time-period, one […]
Leonard Muellner back to Homerizon Conference main page Discovery Procedures and Principles for Homeric Philological Research The past 100 years have brought new perspectives and new methods to the study of Homeric poetry, several of which affect our understanding of the poems in the most basic ways. For the philologist working on the meaning of […]
Richard Martin back to Homerizon Conference main page Cretan Homers: Tradition, Politics, Fieldwork The notion of horizon requires us to think of perspective, and that, in turn, means we must consider the place from which one looks. In this paper, I gaze at the distant prospect of Homer — whether that phenomenon “Homer” be […]
Johannes Haubold back to Homerizon Conference main page Homer between East and West There has been a growing trend in Homeric studies to investigate the connections between Homeric epic and the so-called ‘Ancient Near East’. In this paper I reflect on the nature of this trend, as well as proposing a new approach to […]
Constanze Güthenke back to Homerizon Conference main page The Philhellenic Horizon: Homeric Prolegomena to the Greek War of Independence Based on what Richard Armstrong and Casey Dué, in the invitation to this conference, termed the Wolfian paradigm of Homeric research and its intersection with the preoccupations of the Romantic period (ballads; nature; language; […]
Barbara Graziosi back to Homerizon Conference main page Homer and the Definition of Epic Epic, as a genre, is defined using many different criteria, from mode of discourse (although some epics are not predominantly narrative), length (though some epics are short), relationship to other genres (though not all epics incorporate minor genres), subject […]
Doug Frame back to Homerizon Conference main page The Homeric Poems after Ionia: A Case in Point The general topic of this paper is the reception of the Homeric poems in mainland Greece after their substantial formation in Ionia in the late eighth and early seventh centuries B.C. The case in point is Sparta […]
Mary Ebbott back to Homerizon Conference main page Butler’s Authoress and gendered readings of the Odyssey How do or should considerations of gender affect our interpretation of Homeric poetry? This is the central question in my article. I explore it by examining Samuel Butler’s 1897 book The Authoress of the Odyssey and then various […]
Casey Dué back to Homerizon Conference main page The Invention of Ossian In this paper I argue that by exploring James Macpherson’s alleged “invention” of the ancient Celtic bard Ossian Homerists can learn something about the way that contemporary theory about the nature of poetry influences our scholarly attempts to objectively analyze the Homeric Iliad […]