D. Elmer, The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making in the Iliad. Johns Hopkins 2013. Chapter 3: “Achilles and the Crisis of Exception,” pages 63-85

D. Elmer, The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making in the Iliad. Johns Hopkins 2013. Chapter 4: “Social Order and Poetic Order,” pages 86-104.

G. Nagy, Homer the Classic. Cambridge 2009. Chapter 1.§1-§5, pages 73- 104 ("An esthetics of rigidity")

A. Haft, "Odysseus' wrath and grief in the Iliad: Agamemnon, the Ithacan King and the Sack of Troy in Book 2, 4, and 14. The Classical Journal 85 (1990) 97-114.

A. Purves, 2018. Homer and the Poetics of Gesture, Chapter 5: "Standing."

Edzard Visser, 1997. Homers Katalog der Schiffe. Stuttgart: Teubner. (ok, maybe not this week—it's 700-something pages of German.....)

Jasnow, B., Evans, C., and Strauss Clay, J. 2018. "Poetic and Geographical Organization in the Catalogue of Ships." TAPA 148. 1-44.

Eunice Kim, 2023. "The Art of the Trojan Catalogue ( Iliad 2.816–877)." Classical World 116.115-145.

WEEK THREE : Iliad 3-5

January 16: Iliad 3

zooming in: Iliad 3.1-37, 3.395-420

January 18: Iliad 4-5

zooming in: Iliad 4.126-182.

zooming in: Iliad 5.311-380.

Things you might read this week (but don't have to):

Claire Le Feuvre, Homer A to Z: Metrics, Linguistics, and Zenodotus (2022). Chapter 2 (on 3.152).

R. Martin, "Keens from the absent chorus: Troy to Ulster." Western Folklore 62 (2003) 119-142.

R. Blondell, Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation. Oxford 2013. Chapter 2: “Helen, Daughter of Zeus” Link Links to an external site.

R. Blondell, Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation. Oxford 2013. Chapter 3: “Disarming Beauty: the Iliad.” Link Links to an external site.

Muellner, L. "The Simile of the Cranes and Pygmies: A Study of Homeric Metaphor." HSCP 93 (1990) 59-101. Link Links to an external site.

S. Jamison, “Draupadi on the Walls of Troy.” Classical Antiquity 13 (1994) 5-16. Link

C. Tsagalis, The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring intertextuality in the Homeric Epics. HUP 2008. Chapter 6: "Viewing from the walls, viewing Helen: language and indeterminacy in the 'Teichoscopia'". Link Links to an external site.

J. Ready, Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad. Cambridge 2011. Chapter 4. "Sequences of Similes in the Character-Text." Link Links to an external site.

E. Allen-Hornblower, “Gods in Pain: Walking the Line between Divine and Mortal in Iliad 5.” Lexis 32 (2014) 27-57.

WEEK FOUR: Iliad 6- 8

January 23: Iliad 6

zooming in: Iliad 6.390-495

January 25: Iliad 7-8

zooming in: Iliad 7. 225-285 (ideally, keep going to 312)

zooming in: Iliad 8.300-307, 489-516.

Things you might read this week:

G. Nagy, Homer the Preclassic (University of California 2009).

Part II Chapter 10.2 "Pattern-weaving back into the Bronze Age Links to an external site."

Part II Chapter 7.4 "Rethinking the Trojan Past Links to an external site."

R. Martin The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad. Ithaca 1989. Chapter 2: “Heroic genres of speaking."

E. Bakker, Poetry in Speech. Ithaca 1996. Chapter 3: "Consciousness and Cognition."

J. O’Maley. “Diomedes as Audience and Speaker in the Iliad. Chapter 10 in J. Ready and C. Tsagalis, eds. Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters. University of Texas Press 2018.

W. Donlan, “The Unequal Exchange between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift-Giving Economy.” Phoenix 43 (1989) 1-15.

R. Scodel, “The Wits of Glaucus” TAPA 122 (1992) 73-84.

C. Dué. Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis. Chapter 4: “Wife.”

C. Dué. The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Chapter 1: “Men’s Songs and Women’s Songs.”

WEEK FIVE: Iliad 9-11

January 30: Iliad 9

zooming in: Iliad 307-429

February 1: Iliad 10-11

zooming in: Iliad 10.254-282, 446-464

zooming in: Iliad 11.670-762

Things you might read this week:

M. Bachvarova, “Formed on the Festival Stage: Plot and Characterization in the Iliad as a Competitive Collaborative Process.” Chapter 10 in J. Ready and C. Tsagalis, eds. Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters. University of Texas Press 2018.

R. Scodel, “Iliad 9.372-373 and αὐτὸς ἀπούρας.” The Classical Journal 98 (2003) 275-279.

D. Wilson, "Symbolic Violence in Iliad Book 9." The Classical World 93 (1999) 131-147.

G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans, Baltimore 1979/199. Chapter Six, pages 94-117 ("Lamentation and the Hero")

G. Nagy, Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter. Cambridge 1974. Epilogue, pages 228-261: "The Hidden Meaning of κλέος ἄφθιτον and śráva(s) ákṣitam."

G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans, Baltimore 1979/199. Chapter Three, ("A Conflict between Odysseus and Achilles")

N. Yamagata, “Phoenix’s Speech: is Achilles punished?” The Classical Quarterly 41 (1991) 1-15.

WEEK SIX: Iliad 12-15

February 6: Iliad 12-13

zooming in: 12.195-229, 13. 169-205

February 8: Iliad 14-15

zooming in: 14.312-353, 15.674-695

G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans, Baltimore 1979/199. Chapter Three, ("A Conflict between Odysseus and Achilles")

R. Scodel, “Iliad 9.372-373 and αὐτὸς ἀπούρας.” The Classical Journal 98 (2003) 275-279.

J. Burgess, The Death and Afterlife of Achilles. Baltimore 2009. Chapters 2 and 3 (pages 27-55)

WEEK SEVEN: Iliad 16-18

February 13: Iliad 16

zooming in: 16.726-776; 16.783-829.

extra in case you want more zooming in: 16.220-252, 16.439-461,

February 15: Iliad 17-18

zooming in: 17.1-60, 17.426-455.

zooming in: 18.35-64,18. 490-508, 18.590-606.

Things you might read this week:

E. Allen-Hornblower, “Revisiting the Apostrophes to Patroclus in Iliad 16.”

G. Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics. Cornell University Press 1992. Chapter 5 (“The Death of Sarpedon and the Question of Homeric Uniqueness”) 122-142.

S. Lowenstam, “Patroclus Death in the Iliad and the Inheritance of an Indo-European Myth.” Archaeological news 6 (1977) 72-76.

D. Lateiner, “Pouring Bloody Drops (Iliad 16. 459): The Grief of Zeus.” Colby Quarterly 38.1 (2002) 42-61.

W. Allan, “Arms and the Man: Euphorbus, Hector, and the Death of Patroclus.” Classical Quarterly 55 (2005) 1-16.

A. Griffith, “A Ram called Patroklos.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 32 (1985) 49-50.

R. Rabel “Cebriones the Diver: Iliad 16.733-776.” AJP 114 (1993) 339-341.

L. Slatkin, The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad. Berkeley 1991. Chapters 2 and 3 (pages 53-105)

I. de Jong, “Pluperfects and the Artist in Eckphrases. From the shield of Achilles to the shield of Aeneas (and beyond). Mnemosyne 68 (2015) 889- 916

S. Lonsdale , “A Dancing Floor for Ariadne (Iliad 18.590-592): Aspects of Ritual Movement in Homer and Minoan Religion.” In B. Carter and S. Morris, eds. The Ages of Homer: a tribute to Emily Townsend Vemeule.” University of Texas Press 1995.

G. Nagy, “The Shield of Achilles: Ends of the Iliad and Beginnings of the Polis” (Chapter 4 of Homeric Responses. University of Texas Press 2003)

https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/3791.4-the-shield-of-achilles-ends-of-the-iliad-and-beginnings-of-the-polis Links to an external site.

Y. Rinon, “Tragic Hephaestus: the Humanized God in the Iliad and the Odyssey.” Phoenix 60 (2006) 1-20.

M. Alden, “Lions in Paradise: Lion Similes in the Iliad and the Lion Cubs of Il. 18.318-22. Classical Quarterly 55 (2005) 335-342.

N. Hammond, “The scene in Iliad 18.497-508 and the Albanian Blood Feud.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologist 22(1985) 79-86.

P. Hardie, “Imago Mundi: Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Shield of Achilles.” JHS 105 (1985) 11-31.

T. Hubbard, “Nature and Art in the Shield of Achilles.” Arion 2 (1992) 16-41.

S. Scully, “Reading the Shield of Achilles: terror, anger, delight.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 101 (2003) 29-47.

WEEK EIGHT: Iliad 19-21

February 20: Iliad 19.

zooming in: 19.282-339.

February 22: Iliad 20-21

zooming in: 20.378-454

zooming in: 21.1-33, 232-271, 342-365.

Things you might read (and listen to!) this week:

E. Austin, Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the Iliad. University of Michigan 2021.

Edith Hall, Homer's Iliad and Environmental Catastrophe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3wELA-ykdg

Brooke Holmes, "Situating Scamader: 'Natureculture' in the Iliad" Ramus 44 (2015) 29-51.

Christina Salowey, "The Rivers Run Through It: Environmental History in Two Heroic Riverrine Battles." In: Greta Hawes, ed. Myths on the Map: the Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece. 2017: 159-177.

WEEK NINE: Iliad 22-23

February 27: Iliad 22

zooming in: 90-166/213; 437-515.

February 29: Iliad 23

zooming in: Iliad 23. 54-107, 301-350.

Things you might read this week:

L. Garcia “Hector, the Marginal Hero: Performance Theory and the Homeric Monologue.” Chapter 11 in J. Ready and C. Tsagalis, eds. Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters. University of Texas Press 2018.

S. van der Mije, “Bad Herbs—the Snake Simile in Iliad 22.” Mnemosyne 64 (2011) 359-382

J. Ready, “Iliad 22.123-128 and the erotics of supplication.” The Classical Bulletin 81 (2005) 145-164.

D. Frame, Hippota Nestor. Cambridge 2009. Chapter 5 (Iliad 23)

G. Nagy, Homer the Classic. Cambridge 2009. Chapter 1.s13-s14, pages 160- 186 ("Sunt lacrimae rerum")

G. Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans. Chapters 7 and 8, pages 118-150.

T. Van Nortwick, “Like a Woman: Hektor and the Boundaries of Masculinity.” Arethusa 34 (2001) 221-235.

WEEK TEN : Iliad 24

March 5: Iliad 24.

zooming in: Iliad 24. 478-595, 718-804.

Things you might read this week:

G. Nagy, Homer the Preclassic. Berkeley 2010. Chapter 10, pages 273- 310 ("The Sorrows of Andromache Revisited")

L. Muellner, The Anger of Achilles. Ithaca 1996. Chapter 5 ("The Menis of Achilles and its Iliadic Teleology")

J. Burgess, “The Hypertext of Astyanax.” Trends in Classics 2 (2010) 211-224.

C. Mackie, "Iliad 24 and the Judgement of Paris." Classical Quarterly 63.1 (2013) 1-16.

R Muich, “Focalization and Embedded Speech in Andromache’s Iliadic Laments.” Illinois Classical Studies 35-36 (2010-2011) 1-24.

S. Mills, “Achilles, Patroclus and Parental Care in Some Homeric Similes.” Greece & Rome 47 (2000) 3-18.

K. Carvounis, “Helen and Iliad 24.763-764.” Hyperboreus 13 (2007)

EXTRA: some readings on Homeric epithets

"Troy" slides (mostly useful for links)

Also recommended on Troy and available on youtube:

Jonathan Hall, Archaeology and Myth: some reflections Links to an external site.

FINAL PROJECT DUE MARCH 13: SUBMIT HERE