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The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus of the poems, the formulae, the characters and the archaeological background, there are detailed discussions of similes, speeches, the poet as story-teller and the genre of epic both within Greece and worldwide. The reception chapters include assessments of ancient Greek and Roman readings as well as selected modern interpretations from the eighteenth century to the present day. Chapters on Homer in English translation and 'Homer' in the history of ideas round out the collection.

List of illustrations … viii
List of contributors …x
Preface …xv
Maps …xvii
1 Introduction …1
Robert Fowler
PART 1: THE POEMS AND THEIR NARRATOR
2 The Iliad: an unpredictable classic …11
Donald Lateiner
3 The Odyssey and its explorations …31
Michael Silk
4 The story-teller and his audience …45
Ruth Scodel
PART 2: THE CHARACTERS
5 The Gods in the Homeric epics …59
Emily Kearns
6 Manhood and heroism …74
Michael Clarke
7 Gender and Homeric epic …91
Nancy Felson and Laura M. Slatkin
PART 3: THE POET’S CRAFT
8 Formulas, metre and type-scenes …117
Matthew Clark
9 Similes and other likenesses …139
Richard Buxton
10 The speeches …156
Jasper Griffin
PART 4: TEXT AND CONTEXT
11 Epic as genre …171
John Miles Foley
12 The epic tradition in Greece …188
Ken Dowden
13 Homer’s society …206
Robin Osborne
14 The Homeric question …220
Robert Fowler
PART 5: HOMERIC RECEPTIONS
15 Homer and Greek literature …235
Richard Hunter
16 Roman Homer …254
Joseph Farrell
17 Homer and English epic …272
Penelope Wilson
18 Homer and the Romantics …287
Timothy Webb
19 Homer and Ulysses …311
Vanda Zajko
20 Homer: the history of an idea …324
James I . Porter
21 ‘Shards and suckers’: contemporary receptions of Homer …344
Lorna Hardwick
22 Homer in English translation …363
George Steiner
Dateline …376
List of works cited …378
Index of passages discussed …415
General index …416