Why Homer Matters (47 page)

“spirit of cruelty”:
Note to
Iliad
IV.75 in Pope's translation; see, for this and the following valuable references to William Blake and Joel Barlow, Michael Ferber, “Shelley and ‘The Disastrous Fame of Conquerors,'”
Keats-Shelley Journal
51 (2002), 145–73.

Blake blamed Homer:
David V. Erdman, ed.,
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
, rev. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 270.

“but he has given”:
From David B. Davis, ed.,
Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe
, in a chapter on “The Military System” (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1956), 39.

“There are certain ages”:
Susan Sontag, review of Simone Weil,
Selected Essays
(1962), trans. Richard Rees,
New York Review of Books
, Feb. 1, 1963.

“Nietzsche, at his worst”:
Richard Rorty, “Against Belatedness,”
London Review of Books
, June 16, 1983, 3–5, a review of Hans Blumenberg,
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
, trans. Robert Wallace (1983).

“praised Homer's
enargeia”: Alice Oswald,
Memorial: An Excavation of the
Iliad (London: Faber, 2011), 1.

“a telling out”:
See Heinrich F. Plett, Enargeia
in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age: The Aesthetics of Evidence
(Leiden: Brill, 2012), 27.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GREEK TEXTS

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica
. With parallel translation by H. G. Evelyn-White. Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb/Harvard University Press, 1914.

The Iliad
. With parallel translation by A. T. Murray. Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb/Harvard University Press, 1925.

The Iliad
. With parallel translation by W. F. Wyatt. Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb/Harvard University Press, 1999.

Lives of Homer
. In
Homeric Hymns
, etc., with parallel translation by M. L. West. Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb/Harvard University Press, 2003.

The Odyssey
. With parallel translation by A. T. Murray, revised by G. E. Dimock. Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb/Harvard University Press, 1999.

TRANSLATIONS

Fagles, Robert.
The Iliad
. New York: Penguin, 1990.

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.
The Odyssey
. New York, Penguin, 1996.

Lattimore, Richmond.
The Iliad of Homer
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

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.
The Odyssey
. New York: Harper, 1967.

Nicoll, Allardyce, ed.
Chapman's Homer: The Iliad
. 1956., Reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1984.

Pope, Alexander.
The Iliad
. London, 1715–1720.

Pope, Alexander, with W. Broome and E. Fenton.
The Odyssey
. London, 1726.

Rieu, E. V., revised by D. C. H. Rieu.
The Odyssey
. London: Penguin, 1946.

Shaw, T. E.
The Odyssey
. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

ADAPTATIONS

Logue, Christopher.
War Music
. London: Faber, 2001.

Oswald, Alice.
Memorial: An Excavation of the
Iliad. London: Faber, 2011.

ON THE DATE OF HOMER

Finley, Sir Moses.
The World of Odysseus
. New York: Viking, 1954.

Foley, John Miles, ed.
A Companion to Ancient Epic
. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Morris, Ian. “The Use and Abuse of Homer.”
Classical Antiquity
5, no. 1 (Apr. 1986), 81–138.

Nagy, Gregory.
Homeric Questions
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Sherratt, Susan. “Archaeological Contexts.” In
A Companion to Ancient Epic
, edited by John Miles Foley, 119–42. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

THE PYLOS FRESCO

Blegen, Carl W. “The Palace of Nestor Excavations of 1955.”
American Journal of Archaeology
60, no. 2 (Apr. 1956), 95–101.

Dué, Casey. “
Epea Pteroenta
: How We Came to Have Our Iliad.” In
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
, edited by Casey Dué, 19–30. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009.

Lang, Mabel L.
The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia
, vol. 2,
The Frescoes
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Vermeule, Emily. Review of Lang in
Art Bulletin
52, no. 4 (Dec. 1970), 428–30.

SEFERIS

Seferis, George.
Complete Poems
. Translated and edited by E. Keeley and P. Sherrard. 1995. Reprint, Greenwich: Anvil Press, 2009.

ANTHROPOLOGY OF HOMER

Dougherty, Carol.
The Raft of Odysseus: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's
Odyssey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Helms, Mary W.
Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge and Geographical Distance
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.

CRITICISM AND RECEPTION

Arnold, Matthew.
On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford
. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, 1861. Online at
http://www.victorianprose.org/
.

Baldick, Robert, ed. and trans.
The Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
. 1962. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2007.

Boyle, Nicholas.
Goethe: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790–1803
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Johnson, Samuel. “Life of Pope” (1779). In
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper
, vol. 12, 112. London: J. Johnson, 1810.

Murray, Penelope, and T. Dorsch.
Classical Literary Criticism
. London: Penguin, 2000.

Rexroth, Kenneth.
Classics Revisited
. New York: New Directions, 1968.

Reynolds, Matthew.
The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Weintraub, Rodelle, and Stanley Weintraub. “Chapman's Homer.”
Classical World
67, no. 1 (Sept.–Oct. 1973), 16–24. (An article on T. E. Lawrence.)

KEATS

Clarke, Charles Cowden. “Recollections of Keats” (1861). In
Recollections of Writers
, 120–57. London, 1878.

Coleridge, S. T. “Notes on Chapman's Homer.” In
Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge
, vol. 2, 231. London, 1849.

Laing, Andrew.
The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions
. Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward. Vol. 1, 510. London, 1880.

Lockhart, J. G. “On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. V.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
, Apr. 1819.

Mallory, J. P., and D. Q. Adams.
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics)
, 136. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Motion, Andrew.
Keats
. London: Faber, 1997.

TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXT

Bird, Graeme. “Critical Signs—Drawing Attention to ‘Special' Lines of Homer's Iliad in the Manuscript Venetus A.” In
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
, edited by Casey Dué, 112–14. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009.

Boyle, Nicholas.
Goethe: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790–1803
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Dante.
Inferno
. London: Penguin, 2013, tr. by Robin Kirkpatrick.

Labowsky, L.
Bessarion's Library and the Biblioteca Marciana—Six Early Inventories
. Rome: Sussidi Erudite, 1979.

Martin, Richard P. “Cretan Homers: Tradition, Politics, Fieldwork.”
Classics@
3. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2012.

Petrie, William M. Flinders.
Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe
. London, 1889.

Quincey, Thomas de. “Homer and the Homeridae.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
, Oct. 1841, 411–27.

Southey, Robert, ed.
The Works of William Cowper
. Vol. 6. London, 1836.

Villoison, Joh. Baptista Caspar d'Ansse de.
Homeri Ilias ad Veteris Codicis Veneti Fidem Recensita
. Paris, 1788.

IDEAS OF HOMER

Black, J. “Some Structural Features of Sumerian Narrative Poetry.” In
Mesopotamian Epic Literature: Oral or Aural?
, edited by M. E. Vogelzang and H. L. J. Vanstiphout, 71–101. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

Butler, S.
The Authoress of the Odyssey
. 2nd ed. London: Longmans, Green, 1922.

Cailleux, Thé
ŏ
phile.
Pays atlantiques décrits par Homère. Ibérie, Gaule, Bretagne, Archipels, Amérique
. Paris, 1878.

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.
Théorie nouvelle sur les origines humaines. Homère en Occident. Troie en Angleterre
. Brussels, 1883.

Garnett, David, ed.
The Letters of T. E. Lawrence
. London, 1938.

Mertz, Henriette.
The Wine Dark Sea: Homer's Heroic Epic of the North Atlantic
. Chicago: self-published, 1964.

van der Valk, M., ed.
Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem Pertinentes ad Fidem Codicis Laurentiani Editi
. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1971–1987.

Vinci, Felice.
Omero nel Baltico
. With introductions by R. Calzecchi Onesti and F. Cuomo. Rome: Palombi Editori, 1998.

West, M. L.
The East Face of Helicon
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

______
, ed. and trans.
Lives of Homer
. In
Homeric Hymns
, etc. Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb/ Harvard University Press, 2003.

______
.
The Making of the
Iliad:
Disquisition and Analytical Commentary
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Wilkens, Iman.
Where Troy Once Stood
. 2nd ed. London: Rider, 2009.

Wood, Florence, and Kenneth Wood.
Homer's Secret Iliad: The Epic of the Night Skies Decoded
. London: John Morris, 1999.

EMPORIO AND PITHEKOUSSAI

Boardman, John.
Excavations in Chios, 1952–1955: Greek Emporio
. Supplementary volumes, no. 6, iii–xiv. Athens: British School at Athens, 1967.

Buchner, Giorgio. “Recent Work at Pithekoussai (Ischia).”
Archaeological Reports
17 (1970–1971), 63–67.

Buchner, G., and D. Ridgway.
Pithekoussai, La necropoli: Tombe 1–723. Scavate dal 1952 al 1961
. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1993.

Connors, Catherine. “Monkey Business: Imitation, Authenticity, and Identity from Pithekoussai to Plautus.”
Classical Antiquity
23, no. 2 (Oct. 2004), 179–207.

Faraone, Christopher A. “Taking the ‘Nestor's Cup Inscription' Seriously: Erotic Magic and Conditional Curses in the Earliest Inscribed Hexameters.”
Classical Antiquity
15, no. 1 (Apr. 1996), 77–112.

Monk, Kate.
Onomastikon
. 1997.
http://tekeli.li/onomastikon/Ancient-World/Greece/Male.html
.

Papadopoulos, John K., and Deborah Ruscillo. “A Ketos in Early Athens: An Archaeology of Whales and Sea Monsters in the Greek World.”
American Journal of Archaeology
106, no. 2 (Apr. 2002), 187–227.

Powell, B. “The Dipylon Oinochoe Inscription and the Spread of Literacy in 8th Century Athens.”
Kadmos
27 (1988), 65–86.

______
. “Nestor's Cup and the Etruscans.”
Oxford Journal of Archaeology
16 (1997), 325–44.

Ridgway, D.
The First Western Greeks
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

West, M. L. “Grated Cheese Fit for Heroes.”
Journal of Hellenic Studies
118 (1998), 190–91.

MILMAN PARRY AND THE ORAL HOMER

Bajgori
ć
, Halil. The Wedding of Mustajbey's Son Be
ć
irbey, Parry no. 6699,
www.oraltradition.org/static/zbm/zbm.pdf
. (For the eEdition performed by Halil Bajgori
ć
and edited and translated by John Miles Foley, see
www.oraltradition.org
.)

Bentley, R.
Remarks upon a Late Discourse of Free Thinking
. London, 1713.

The Calum Maclean Project. Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh,
http://www.calum-maclean-project.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/home/;http://calumimaclean.blogspot.co.uk/2013_02_01_archive.html
.

Draak, Maartje. “Duncan MacDonald of South Uist.”
Fabula
1 (1957), 47–58.

Edmondson, M. S.,
Lore: An Introduction to the Science of Folklore and Literature
. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971, 323.

Edwards, M. W.
The Iliad: A Commentary
. Vol. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Eliot, T. S.
Selected Essays
. 3rd ed. London: Faber, 1999.

Foley, John Miles.
Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
. Oakland: University of California Press, 1993.

Greene, William C. “Milman Parry (1902–1935).”
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
71, no. 10 (Mar. 1937), 535–36.