pity, 81, ioo, 119, 127, 261, 295 Plato, 103, 117, 120, 127, 144, 145, 280, 293. 3°7; [Plato], 153 Pleisthenes, 217 pleonasm, see doublet Pleuron, 132, 134, 135 plunder, see booty plus-verse, 73, 76, 79, 170, 255, 261, 263, 3°7>3 I 7>332 Plutarch, 92, 105, 123, 282; [Plutarch], 93 Podaleirios, 279 poet (ofAspis), 221-2 poet (of Iliad), Homer, passim; artistry of, 91, 139, 288, 311; notes ftpx 1 *) of events, 288; assumes familiarity, 224, 288; attitudes of, 121, 136, 145, 198; comments on narrative, 104, 141, 251, 337; geographical standpoint of, 59, 77; inventiveness of, 123, 131, 239, 325, 326; keeps Akhilleus in mind, 287; keeps distance, 132; 'knowledge' of, 130, 136, 248, 286, 310; looks forward, 153, 211, 288, see also narrative goal; methods of, 151, 211, 212, 232, 233; as narrator, 125, 245, 278, 298, 304, 330, see also de Jong; as observer, 92, 318, 320; philhellenism, 211, 261, 264; slips by, 138, 144, 264, 305; reveals intentions by stages, 144; at work, 87, 245; see also Iliad poet (of Doloneia), 151, 155, 158, 165, 168, 172, 175, 178, 179, 180-1, 183, 184, 191, 196, 206; obscure thought of, 202, 203; see also book 1 o poet (of Odyssey), 206 poetical grammar, 3, 6, 14, 16, 23, 34 Polubos, 225 Polupoites, 109, 332, 333, 334; see also Lapithai Polygnotus, 146 polyptoton, 230 polysyndeton, 185, 243 Pope, M. W. M., 7, 182 Porphyry, 178, 293 Poseidon, 87, 109, in, 144, 177, 229, 318; with trident, 320 Pouludamas, 224, 225, 247, 264, 325-6; as warrior, 314, 325 praise-poetry, 38 Prato, C, 27 prayer, 83, 87, 89, 133, 182, 184, 188; omitted, 212, 217, 252; see also Anrai Priam, 74, 88, 115, 139, 141 prophecy, 62 prosopopoeia, 97 Puhvel,J., 162 Pulos, Pylians, 77-8, 130; location of, 297 Index 377 Pylian epic/heroic poetry, 39, 296-8, 298, 302 Quintilian, 93 % (vocalic r), 220 rainbow, 219 rally, see battle rank, designations of, 106 Rank, L. Ph., 74-5 Rapp, G., and Gifford, J. A. (edd.), 195 realism, 139, 168, 200, 201, 315, 364 recall of previous passage, 20, 60, 61-2, 64, 152; absence of, 72, 153, 159, 261, 268 reception scene, see hospitality scene Redfield, J. M., 100, 102, 129, 191 Reeve, M. D., 101 Reichel, W., 179-80 Reinhardt, K., 57, 94, 146, 148, 215, 229, 237, 256, 270 religion, popular, 133 repetition of speeches/commands, 92, 94, 98, 193, 194,247,311 responsibility, 55, 56 retardation, 71, 288 retiring scene, 144, 209 rhapsode, 36 Rhesos, 153, 162; death of, 201, 206; story of, 151, 152, i55> J 77 Rhesus (tragedy), 189, 203 rhetoric, see orator Rhianus, 143 Richardson, N. J., 7, 17, 52, 68, 207, 293 Richter, G., 89, 291, 294 Richter, W., 228, 292, 294 Ridgeway, W., 74 ring-composition, 99, 101, 121, 135, 154, 232, 256, 298, 303 Risch, E., 136, 162, 206, 283, 346, 347 Robinson, D., 77, 135 Roland, Chanson de, see Old French heroic poetry romance, 34, 44, 146 Rosner,J. A., 119 Ross, D.J. A., 35 Ruijgh, C. J., 224, 261-2, 304 runover word, 4, 141, 239, 251, 324, 330, 337 runs of verses, 5, 19-21, 35, 71, 145, 149, 193, 215, 230, 247, 272, 281; see also couplets Russo, J. A., 10, 121, 285 Sacks, R., 109, 268 sacrifice, omitted, 217 saga, 33, 55
Index Sarpedon, 78, 99, 102, 104, 115, 162, 258, 264, 314-15, 328, 346, 348-50, 352, 354, 359-60, 361; epithet of, 360; heroism of, 253 scale, indicating significance, 119, 291, 295 sceptre, 59, 61, 73, 78, 79, 187 Schadewaldt, W., 130, 136, 236, 268, 280, 281, 290, 308 schema etymologicum, 74-5, 175 Schmiel, R., 25 Schnapp-Gourbeillon, A., 201 Schoek, G., 125 Schofield, M., 325 scholia, scholiast, 29, 58, 78, 92, 93, 116, 139, 146, 148, 151, 153, 170, 179, 193, 203, 209, 232, 303, 364, 337, 350, and passim; bias in, 157, 342; idea of epic in, 126; see also Aristarchus, Aristophanes, Zenodotus Schrader, H., 93 Schulze, W., 66, 179, 204, 258, 340 Schwartz, J., 132 Schwyzer, E., 126, 222, 366 Scodel, R., 120, 148, 317 Scott, W. C, 190 Scully, S., 270 Segal, C, 86, 198, 241, 273 sentence pattern, 2, 4, 8, 10-12, 14, 18, 19, 23, 27, 29, 30, 31, 36, 65, 136, 294; see also phrase pattern sentimentality, 342 Sergent, B., 307 Severyns, A., 241 shaman, shamanism, 36, 45 shame, 56, 64; shame culture, 114 Shewan, A., 151, 154, 198, 203 shield, 161, 169, 178, 181, 218, 220-1, 309, 350; body-shield, 267; epithets for, 226, 281; leather, 285, 329; terms for, 220, 276; tower-shield, 276, 281, 282-3 shield-strap, see baldric ship, formulas for, 185-6, 206 Shipp, G. P., 102, 132, 220, 244, 257, 265, 272, 334, 336, 34°> 342 siege methods, 315, 329, 331, 333, 343-5, 358 siege-poetry, 285-6, 329, 343-5, 348 simile, 58, 59, 60, 70, 171, 172, 180, 182, 226, 228, 239, 256, 263, 270, 315, 317, 333; anachronism in, 203; in battle narrative, 284; clusters of, 238, 257, 258, elaboration of, 321, 347; indicates emotion, 322, 351; functions of, 60, 158, 2 75) 277; peasants etc. in, 200-1; and poet's world, 251, 284; realism in, 189; repeated, 61, 283; in speeches, 104, 336; 378 subjects of: ass, 283, 284, bird and chicks 104, boar, 258, 262, 271, 321, 334, clouds, 259, deer, 275, fire, 242, 353, fishing, 59, flood, 277, hounds, 191, 258, 262, insects, 335-6, line, 362, lion, 200-1, 237-8, 244, 283, 321, 350, 351, parent and young, 104, 336, quarrelsome farmers, 361, reaping, 228, scales, 362, snow, 335, 339, spinning woman, 362, star, 226, storm, 58, waves, 259, woman in labour, 256 simultaneous events, narrated as sequential, 280, 291,313,314,330 singer, doi86s, 1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 16, 21, 24, 29, 30, 31, 34-8, 88, 130, 186, 211, 248; amateur, 37, 88; language of, 69; pause of, 366; professional, 37; subject matter of, 39 Sirius, 226, 244 Skamandros: course of, 278; ford of, 243, 278 skewed sentence, 142 Smith, J. D., 37, 50 snakes, 219, 221, 222 Snell, B., 349 Snodgrass, A. M., 77, 233 Sokos, 271, 272, 273 Sophocles, 138 Sosiphanes, 122 South Slavic (Serbo-Croatian) heroic poetry, 32, 34-5, 36, 40, 41, 42-3, 49; cited, 216 speaker's grammar, 190, 197, 208, 238, 310; style, 339 spear, 228, 235; principal weapon, 254, 285; thrusting, 223, 235, 273, 254, 285, 338; throwing, 223, 351; terms for, 252 spoils, see booty Stanford, W. B., 285 Stesichorus, 135 stichic verse, 33-4, 35 stone throwing, 254 Strabo, 115, 298, 317 Strasburger, G., 249, 262 Strasser, F. X., 27 style, 141; abbreviated, 137, 247; additive, 250; antiphonic, 35; appositional, 35; epic, 13, 14, 18, 60, 167; formular, 31, 83, 126, 187; objective, 233; oral, 15, 73, 157, 171, 190, 363; realistic, 134, succinct, 131, 135, 338; traditional, 3; tired, 338 stylometry, 154 substitution, 15-16, 18, 25, 28, 174, 360; of one formula for another, 65, 342, 363 Suger, Abbot, 316 Sundvall, J., 350
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