Table of Contents

Donna F. Wilson (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), 'Demodokos' 'Iliad' and Homer's'; William C. Scott (Dartmouth College), 'The patterning of the similes in Book 2 of the Iliad'; Elizabeth Minchin (The Australian National University), 'Homer on autobiographical memory: the case of Nestor'; James V. Morrison (Centre College), 'Similes for Odysseus and Penelope: mortality, divinity, identity'; Donald Lateiner (Ohio Wesleyan University), 'Telemakhos' one sneeze and Penelope's two laughs (Odyssey 17. 541-50, 18. 158-68)'; Hanna M. Roisman (Colby College), 'Old men and chirping cicadas in the Teichoskopia'; Jonathan S. Burgess (University of Toronto), 'The death of Achilles by Rhapsodes'; Rick M. Newton (Kent State University), 'The Ciconians, revisited (Homer, Odyssey 9. 39-66)'; Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan), 'Odysseus' ethnographic excurses'; Robert J. Rabel (University of Kentucky), 'The art of creative listening in the Odyssey'.

About the Author

Robert J. Rabel is Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Plot and Point of View in the Iliad (University of Michigan Press, 1997) and various articles on Greek and Roman literature. Much of his recent work centers on the relationship between Classics and film.