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by Adam Nicolson


  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, Théŏphile. Pays atlantiques décrits par Homère. Ibérie, Gaule, Bretagne, Archipels, Amérique. Paris, 1878.

  ______. 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


  Bajgorić, Halil. The Wedding of Mustajbey’s Son Bećirbey, Parry no. 6699, www.oraltradition.org/static/zbm/zbm.pdf. (For the eEdition performed by Halil Bajgorić 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.

  Janko, Richard. “The Homeric Poems as Oral Dictated Texts.” Classical Quarterly, new ser., 48, no. 1 (1998), 1–13.

  Kumpf, M. M. Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1984.

  Lamb, William. “The Storyteller, the Scribe, and a Missing Man: Hidden Influences from Printed Sources in the Gaelic Tales of Duncan and Neil MacDonald.” Oral Tradition 27.1 (2012), 109–60.

  Levin, Harry. “Portrait of a Homeric Scholar.” Classical Journal 32, no. 5 (Feb. 1937), 259–66.

  Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960.

  Notopoulos, James A. “The Genesis of an Oral Heroic Poem.” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 3 (1960), 135–44.

  Parry, Adam. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

  Porter, James I. “Homer: The Very Idea.” Arion, 3rd ser., 10, no. 2 (Fall 2002), 57–86.

  Reece, Steve. “Some Homeric Etymologies in the Light of Oral-Formulaic Theory.” Classical World 93, no. 2, Homer (Nov.–Dec. 1999), 185–99.

  Renan, Ernest. Essay on L’Avenir de Science, p. 292. Paris, 1892. Quoted in Adam Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

  Young, Douglas. “Never Blotted a Line? Formula and Premeditation in Homer and Hesiod.” Arion 6, no. 3 (Fall 1967), 279–324.

  EPIC AND MEMORY

  Bachhuber, Christoph. “Aegean Interest on the Uluburun Ship.” American Journal of Archaeology 110, no. 3 (July 2006), 345–63.

  Bellamy, Rufus. “Bellerophon’s Tablet.” Classical Journal 84 (1989), 289–307.

  Blegen, C. W., and K. Kourouniotis. “Excavations of Pylos, 1939.” American Journal of Archaeology 43 (1939), 569.

  Blegen, C. W., and M. Rawson. The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia. Vol. 1, The Buildings and Their Contents. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966.

  Bryce, T. R. “Anatolian Scribes in Mycenaean Greece.” Historia 48 (1999), 257–64.

  ______. “The Nature of Mycenaean Involvement in Western Anatolia.” Historia 38 (1989), 13–14.

  Carter, J. B., and S. P. Morris. The Ages of Homer. A Tribute to E. Townsend Vermeule. 1995; reprint, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

  Gere, Cathy. The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero. London: Profile, 2006.

  Grethlein, Jonas. “Memory and Material Objects in the Iliad and the Odyssey.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 128 (2008), 27–51.

  Harries, Byron. “‘Strange Meeting’: Diomedes and Glaucus in Iliad 6.” Greece and Rome 40 (1993), 133–47.

  Lowry, E. R., Jr. “Glaucus, the Leaves, and the Heroic Boast of Iliad 6.146–211.” In The Ages of Homer. A Tribute to E. Townsend Vermeule, edited by J. B. Carter and S. P. Morris, 193. 1995; reprint, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

  Shear, Ione Mylonas. “Bellerophon Tablets from the Mycenaean World? A Tale of Seven Bronze Hinges.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998), 187–89.

  Vermeule, Emily Townsend. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Oakland: University of California Press, 1979.

  ______. “Jefferson and Homer.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 137, no. 4, 250th anniversary issue (Dec. 1993), 689–703.

  West, M. L. “The Rise of the Greek Epic.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 108 (1988), 151–72.

  BRONZE AND THE MINE

  Agricola, Georgius. De Animantibus Subterraneis. Freiburg, 1548.

  Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. 1958; reprint, Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

  Baker, James C. “Echoes of Tommy Knockers in Bohemia, Oregon, Mines.” Western Folklore 30, no. 2 (Apr. 1971), 119–22.

  Bradley, Pippa. “Death Pits at Cliffs End.” British Archaeology 131 (July–Aug. 2013).

  Chernykh, Evgenii N. Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR: The Early Metal Age. Translated by Sarah Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

  Courtney, M. A. “Cornish Folk-Lore,” part 3. Folk-Lore Journal 5, no. 3 (1887), 177–220.

  Finucane, Ronald. Appearances of the Dead. London: Junction Books, 1982.

  Fitzpatrick, A. P. The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen. Salisbury: Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 2011.

  Harding, Anthony F. European Societies in the Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  Harrison, Richard J. Symbols and Warriors: Images of the European Bronze Age. Bristol: Western Academic and Specialist Press, 2004.

  Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber, 1966.

  Hope, Bryan D. A Curious Place: The Industrial History of Amlwch (1550–1950). Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1994.

  Irwin, M. Eleanor. “Odysseus’s ‘Hyacinthine Hair’ in Odyssey 6.231.” Phoenix 44, no. 3 (Fall 1990), 205–18.

  Kohl, Philip L. The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Kristiansen, Kristian, and Thomas B. Larsson. The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  Oppenheimer, Stephen. “A Reanalysis of Multiple Prehistoric Immigrations to Britain and Ireland Aimed at Identifying Celtic Contributions.” In Celtic from the West, edited by B. Cunliffe and J. T. Koch. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010.

  Roberts, Ben. “Metallurgical Networks and Technological Choice: Understanding Early Metal in Western Europe.” World Archaeology 40, no. 3 (2008), 354–72.

  Roberts, B. W., C. P. Thornton and V. C. Piggott. “Development of Metallurgy in Eurasia.” Antiquity 83 (2009), 1012–22.

  Rothenberg, B., and A. Blanco-Freijeiro. “Ancient Copper Mining and Smelting at Chinflon (Huelva, SW Spain).” British Museum Occasional Paper 20 (1980), 41–62.

  Schulten, A. Fontes Hispaniae Antiquae. Vol. 1. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona, 1922.

  Vermeule, Emily Townsend. Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry. Oakland: University of California Press, 1979.

  THE BACKGROUND ON THE STEPPE

  Anthony, David W. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007.

  Detienne, M., and A. B. Werth. “Athena and the Mastery of the Horse.” History of Religions 11, no. 2 (Nov. 1971), 161–84.

  Donlan, W. “Duelling with Gifts in the Iliad: As the Audience Saw It.” Colby Quarterly 24 (1993), 171.

  Fortson IV, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

  Hammer, Dean. “Achilles as Vagabond: The Culture of Autonomy in the ‘Iliad.’” Classical World 90, no. 5 (May–June 1997), 341–66.

  Hammond, N. G. L. “Tumulus-Buria
l in Albania, the Grave Circles of Mycenae, and the Indo-Europeans.” Annual of the British School at Athens 62 (1967), 77–105.

  Macurdy, Grace H. “The Horse-Taming Trojans.” Classical Quarterly 17, no. 1 (Jan. 1923), 50–52.

  Mallory, J. P. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989.

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

  Miles, David, and Simon Palmer. “White Horse Hill.” Current Archaeology 142 (1995), 372–78.

  Muir, Edwin. One Foot in Eden. London: Faber, 1956.

  Nimis, Steve. “The Language of Achilles: Construction vs. Representation.” Classical World 79, no. 4 (Mar.–Apr. 1986), 217–25.

  Parry, Adam. “The Language of Achilles.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 87 (1956), 1–7.

  Reeve, M. D. “The Language of Achilles.” Classical Quarterly, new ser., 23, no. 2 (Nov. 1973), 193–95.

  Ślusarska, Katarzyna. “Funeral Rites of the Catacomb Community: 2800–1900 BC: Ritual, Thanatology and Geographical Origins.” Baltic-Pontic Studies (Poznań) 13 (2006).

  Smith, R. Scott, and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, trans. Apollodorus’ Library and Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology. Fabula 95. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007.

  Telegin, D. Ya., and David W. Anthony. “On the Yamna Culture.” Current Anthropology 28, no. 3 (June 1987), 357–58.

  Weil, Simone. L’Iliade ou le poème de la force. See Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff. War and the Iliad. Translated by Mary McCarthy. New York: New York Review of Books, 2005.

  West, M. L. “The Rise of the Greek Epic.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 108 (1988), 151–72.

  THE IMPACT OF THE SAIL

  Broodbank, Cyprian. An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  Strasser, Thomas F., et al. “Stone Age Seafaring in the Mediterranean, Plakias Region for Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Habitation of Crete.” Hesperia 79 (2010), 145–90.

  THE GANG AND THE CITY

  Allen, Susan Heuck. “A Personal Sacrifice in the Interest of Science: Calvert, Schliemann, and the Troy Treasures.” Classical World 91, no. 5, The World of Troy (May–June 1998), 345–54.

 

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