The Iliad - Structure, Myth , and Meaning

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(13) CHAPTER ONE The Principal Narrative Pattern 14(39) CHAPTER TWO The Overture 53(27) CHAPTER THREE The Middle Sequence: Parody of the Narrative Pattern 80(32) CHAPTER FOUR The Introductory Pattern: The Best of the Akhaians Calls an Assembly 112(37) CHAPTER FIVE Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad I 149(34) CHAPTER SIX Subgenres of Myth in the Iliad II 183(57) CHAPTER SEVEN The Iliad's Divine Economy, the Goddess Anat, and the Homeric Athena 240(46) Conclusion 286(5) Notes 291(26) Glossary 317(2) Bibliography 319(12) Index 331