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• Introduction
  • foreword
  • Where is this going?Abstract
  • Why read the Iliad?One hundred oxen
• Where & when (historical)
  • the Ionian migration
    • history
    • Charter myth
    • Poseidon
  • Smyrna and Lydia
• How (poetical)
  • The Song
    • the language
      • basics
      • Likenesses
      • type, character and 'position'
    • Structures
      • A proportional view of the summary
      • Geometrics: the Thematic Structure, ring composition.
      • other structures: time, pathos, characters.
      • Stitched verse - alterations?
      • Agamemnon's council
  • The Singer
    • Apollo and the Art of Archery
      • Poetry, Prophecy, Healing
    • Rhapsodes
• What (thematic)
  • The Hero (the Chimaera model)
    • 1. the Immortal Hero
    • 2. the Plan of Zeus
    • 3. the (im)mortal hero
  • the Gods
    • 'What we obey'
    • Kronos
    • the Good, the True and the Beautiful
  • the Polis
    • Homer's Politeia
    • Plato's Politeia
  • The Odyssey
    • go home, sailor
    • Return of the King
• Who (reflexive)
  • Self-reflectivity in Iliad and Odyssey
  • The Women
  • A hypothetical Life of Homer.
  • Chios, Phoenix, Nausikaa
• Target (did he hit it?)
  • Was Achilles stronger than Homer?