The Funeral Games of Patroclus

Willcock, M. M.

doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.1973.tb00120.x

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“…See further (with bibliography) Thalmann 1998, 136-37. 28 Gernet 1948Willcock 1973;Gagarin 1983;Dunkle 1987;Roisman 1988;Nagy 1990, 208-10;Detienne and Vernant 1991, 11-26;Scott 1997;Kitchell 1998;Frame 2009, 131-72. 29 Although scholars dispute the exact details of where on the track the overtaking happens, there is no mention of a turning post.…”

Section: Running and Catching Up In The Iliadmentioning

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Homer and the Art of Overtaking

Purves¹

2011

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This article draws attention to the thematics of running in Homer, seeking to make sense of the difference between catching up and overtaking as it applies to the two epics. It begins by exploring how the Iliad foregrounds the problems and strategies involved in catching up with one's opponent and getting ahead. It then goes on to show how, by contrast, the Odyssey presents a world where the act of overtaking and the alternation between the categories of first and last are of central concern to Odysseus on his way home in Books 8 and 9.καὶ οὔ πως ἔστι πόδεσσι / στήμεναι ἀμφοτέροισι καὶ ἐκφυγέειν κακότητα ("There is no way to stand firm on both feet and escape trouble.") -Od. 5.413-14 1 1 The quotation and translation are taken from Dimock's epigraph to his 1956 article. 2 Il. 12.315, 321, cf. 324. Hector says the same at Il. 6.445.

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Homer and the Art of Overtaking

Purves¹

2011

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“…43 On Homer's chariot race and the funeral games in general, see Stawell (1909) 82-92; Willcock (1973); Redfield (1975) 204-10;Dunkle (1981);; Macleod (1982) 30-32;Gagarin (1983); Laser (1987) 21-25; Bannert (1988) 129-51; Taplin (1992) 251-60; Brown (2003); Rengakos (2006); Grethlein (2007). 44 Nestor's description of the turn-post has been interpreted as an intricate reflection on memory: Lynn-George (1988) 266; Dickson (1995) 218; Grethlein (2008) 31.…”

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“…43 On Homer's chariot race and the funeral games in general, see Stawell (1909) 82-92; Willcock (1973); Redfield (1975) Grethlein (2007). 44 Nestor's description of the turn-post has been interpreted as an intricate reflection on memory: Lynn-George (1988) 266; Dickson (1995) 218; Grethlein (2008) 31.…”

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Homer’s Vividness: An Enactive Approach

Grethlein

Huitink

2017

J. Hell. Stud.

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The vividness of Homeric poetry has been admired since antiquity, but has been difficult to pin down with precision. It is usually thought to come about because readers are prompted to visualize the storyworld in the form of mental images seen with the mind's eye. But this cannot be right, both because there are serious scientific problems with the concept of ‘pictures in the head’ and because Homer does not offer many detailed descriptions, which are a prerequisite for eliciting detailed mental images. This article presents a different, and cognitively more realistic, take on the imageability of Homeric epic, which is based on recent reader-response studies inspired by the enactivist theory of cognition. These studies make a compelling case for readerly visualization as an embodied response, which does not depend on bright or detailed mental images. An analysis of the chariot race in Iliad 23 identifies specific features of what may be called an ‘enactive style’, notably the description of simple bodily actions. The final part of the article demonstrates that an enactivist take on Homer's vividness is not incompatible with the ancient concept of enargeia, the chief rhetorical term with which Homer's vividness is characterized in ancient criticism.

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“…While neoanalysts have traditionally reconstructed specific lost poems as sources for the Iliad, oralists instead privilege the embedded resonance of specific words or phrases based on their various uses elsewhere in archaic poetry ("traditional referentiality"). 8 Attempts have been made to combine these approaches, 9 and in Willcock 1973;Richardson 1993: 202-3;Rengakos 2007: 107-8;Forte 2017: 65-104. For allusions to the Trojan horse at the end of the poem, see too Franko 2005. recent decades scholarly attention has shifted away from old questions of "textuality" to focus on the precise mechanics of reference.…”

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