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Table of Contents: Homeric Conversation Introduction I. Overview II. Type scenes and Homeric conversation III. Linguistic perspectives on conversation IV. Repeated speech sequences and formulas in conversation Chapter 1: One on one conversations (Odyssey) Overview for Part I: One on one conversation Conversation in the Odyssey Athena and Odysseus: Book 13 Telemachus and Odysseus: Book 16 Laertes and Odysseus: Book 24 Conclusions Chapter 2: One on one conversations (Odysseus and Penelope) Overview Penelope and Odysseus, prelude: Book 18 Penelope and Odysseus (i): Book 19 Penelope and Eurycleia: Book 23 Penelope and Odysseus (ii): Book 23 Penelope and Neoanalysis Conclusions Chapter 3: One on one conversations (Iliad) Overview: one on one conversation in the Iliad vs. the Odyssey Hector and Andromache: Book 6 Hera and the seduction of Zeus: Book 14 Priam and Achilles: Book 24 Conclusions Chapter 4: Single speeches and variations on the battlefield Overview: types of speech exchange besides one on one conversation Battlefield speech genres Exhortation Challenge and vaunt Conclusions Chapter 5: Group contexts I -- Assemblies Overview: repeated patterns in assembly scenes Assembly patterns vs. other kinds of deliberative groups: Iliad 9 Variations on typical assembly patterns: Iliad 1 and 19 Conclusions Chapter 6: Group contexts II -- Athletic games, laments Overview: similarities among different kinds of formal group contexts Athletic games Laments Conclusions Conclusion Conclusions Speculations Appendices I: Breakdown of direct speeches in the Iliad and the Odyssey by turn type and by type of speech introductory formula A. Overview B. Iliad C. Odyssey II: All participles that appear in reply formulas of the type ___/___ [participle] ¹______ [nominative name/epithet] III: Full-verse context-specific introductory formulas IV: Full-verse speech concluding formulas Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Homer -- Technique.
Conversation in literature.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
Greek language -- Spoken Greek.
Speech in literature.
Homer -- Language.