General Index

Thomas J. Nelson

doi:10.1017/9781009086882.009

General Index

Achelous, 15, 219–221

Achilles

and Agamemnon, 195, 211, 258, 268

and Odysseus, 32, 33 n.111, –59, 60

as singer, 2

death of, 2, 30–31, 36, 41, 207–208

divine parentage of, 105

exploits of, 315–316

fights Aeneas, 29, 183–186

(im)mortality of, 112–116, 170, 269

speed of, 99

theomachy of, 84

wrath of, 29, 57

acrostics, markers of, 15

Aeneas

alternative stories about, 61 n.234

faces Achilles, 29, 105, 183–186

horses of, 193, 250–251

speed of, 99

Agamemnon

and Achilles. See Achilles, and Agamemnon

and breastplate of Cinyras, 253

as delegator, 199–200

as negative exemplum, 265

characterisation of, 259

criticises ally, 86, 194, 202, 268–269, 274–275, 326

death of, 35, 96, 111

in Underworld, 60, 113, 123, 196–201

predicts fall of Troy, 206–207

recalls Tydeus, 86–92

agonism, poetic, 66–70, 108–125, 127–128, 149–156, 260–262, 273–290, 314, 319–326

Ajax (Locrian), 158–159, 248, 261–262, 267

Ajax (Telamonian)

and Achilles’ arms, 143, 177, 186, 248

second-best to Achilles, 142–145

suicide of, 61 n.234, 234–237

suitor of Helen, 116

Alcaeus

alludes to Hesiod, 55–56

alludes to Homer, 57

and Sappho, 51, 53, 234

cites Aristodemus, 53, 319 n.245

in Pindar, 318–319

indexing myth, 137

on Phalanthus, 292

self-reference in, 232–233, 297, 303

ship of state poetry, 227

Alcman, 301–302

in Pindar, 54

memory in, 228

on Circe, 292

on poetic predecessors, 51, 53

Alcmene, 118, 121–122, 124

Alden, M. J., 205

Alexandrian footnote, 9–12, 16–21

allusion

stichometric, 54 n.203

tropes of, 12–16, 23–25

use of term, 6–8, 42–43

Amphimedon, 196–197, 283

Anacreon, 301–303, 318

anagrams, markers of, 15

Andersen, Ø., 90

Andromache, 36, 55, 71, 156–157, 272, 288

Antenor, 253–254

Antilochus

burial of, 60 n.230

death of, 98–99, 182–183

on Odysseus, 100–101, 274

reckless behaviour of, 120 n.157

rescues Nestor, 294–295

speed of, 98–99

Antinous, 101 n.95, 117–124, 186, 251 n.22, 258, 322

Aphrodite

and Aeneas, 105 n.108, 185 n.32

and Diomedes, 192, 245

and Sappho, 232, 298, 304–308

bathing of, 59 n.255

disguised, 128–132

gifts of, 151

girdle of, 23–24

model of beauty, 157

Apollo

and Chryses, 249

and Heracles, 223

and Hermes. See Hermes, and Apollo

and Hyacinthus, 259–260

god of prophecy, 127–128

kills Achilles, 2, 207, 208, 270 n.87

rescues Aeneas, 250

rescues Sarpedon’s corpse, 270

serves Laomedon, 189

supporter of Syracuse, 309

Archilochus, 51, 54, 224, 303, 330

and fable, 134–136

and Glaucus, 227, 228, 233

and Heracles, 219–221, 223

and Telephus, 136 n.199, 203, 291–292

Cologne Epode, 55, 296–297

Argonautic tradition, 9, 23, 48, 118

Ariadne, 13–15

Arion (horse), 92 n.70, 158 n.277

Arion (poet), 51 n.188, 54

aristeia, 49, 192, 253, 276, 324–325

Aristophanes, 24–25, 65 n.253, 135, 152, 177

Aristotle, 18, 33, 71, 247 n.12

Astyanax, 35, 41, 207, 274, 287–288

Atalanta, 149–152

Athena

and Hera, 189

and Poseidon, 217–219

as γλαυκῶπις, 158

disrupts nostoi, 95, 158–159

planes Peleus’ spear, 300

punishes Locrian Ajax, 158–159, 248

supporter of Achilles, 49, 50, 183, 184

supporter of Diomedes, 49, 50, 88, 170, 192–193, 262–263, 275–276, 325

supporter of Heracles, 188, 283

supporter of Odysseus, 120, 194, 267–268

supporter of Tydeus, 86–89, 275–276

audience

future, 69–70, 74, 113

internal and external, 2–3, 70–72

invited to supplement myth, 156–166, 189, 196–204, 240–242, 252–255, 258–259

knowledge of, 63–64, 234–242

Augeas, 254–255

Aulis, 36, 201–204, 206, 260–262, 268–269

Babut, D., 148

Bacchylides

alludes to Hesiod, 53, 146

and Pindar, 310, 320–321

indexing myth, 140–141, 240–242

on gifts of the Muses, 67–68

on Heracles, 153–156

on Homer, 51

self-reference in, 308–309

Barchiesi, A., 20

Barker, E. T. E., 278

Bellerophon, 140, 186

Bettarini, L., 162–166

borrowing, as allusive trope, 23–24

Bowie, E. L., 220–221, 224

Brown, C. G., 163

Burgess, J. S., 32–36, 40–41, 48–49, 115

Burnett, A. P., 217

Cairns, D. L., 241

Calchas, 70, 128, 201–204, 268–269, 286–287

Callimachus, 10, 12 n.34, 16–20, 100 n.91, 110 n.119, 246 n.7

Capaneus, 92

Carruesco, J., 314

Cassandra, 34, 157–159, 248

catalogues, 24, 116–124

Catullus, 9, 13–15, 232 n.177

Centaurs, 257, 259, 274, 322 See too Cheiron, Nessus

Cheiron, 112, 145–146

Christensen, J. P., 278

Cinyras, 200, 224, 253

Circe, 31 n.102, 180, 193, 206, 292

citation, of poets by name, 51–55

Clément-Tarantino, S., 18

Clytemnestra, 33, 113, 123

competition. See agonism, poetic

Conte, G. B., 17, 20

counterfactuals, 24

Creophylus, 188 n.42

Ctesippus, 251

Currie, B. G. F., 25, 42, 45, 58, 208, 269

Cycle, Epic, 30, 47, 61, 117, 212, 285–290

cycles, of song, 55 n.205, 140, 231–233, 296–298, 306, 308, 330

Danek, G., 39, 119

Davies, M., 313

Deianeira, 155, 219–221

Demodocus, 64, 75, 106

Diomedes

as allusive model, 323–326

as doublet of Achilles, 49–50, 115, 185 n.32

as Odysseus’ sidekick, 205–206

captures horses of Aeneas, 250–251

fights Pandarus, 249, 263

immortality of, 170

in Tydeus’ shadow, 86–92, 274, 275–279

recalls Agamemnon’s slight, 194

relationship with Nestor, 277 n.109

wounds Ares, 192–193

Dionysus, 109–110, 177, 210–211, 255

Dioscuri, 115 n.139, 136 n.200, 222 n.146, 300

Dodds, E. R., 294

doublet

character, 50, 89, 101, 115, 160 n.282, 185 n.32, 221, 264, –265–266, 269, 286–287

decreasing, 79 n.20

narrative, 87–88, 185, 191, 202 n.88, 263, 320 n.253

echo, as trope of allusion, 9, 12, 14, 24–25

Elpenor, 206, 208 n.103

Epeius, 248

Epic Cycle. See Cycle, Epic

etymology, 22, 74, 96 n.78

folk-, 84 n.35

markers of, 15

play with, 11 n.31, 21 n.63, 123 n.167, 179 n.14, 214 n.123, 215 n.127

Euboea, 38, 164 n.298, 260–262, 267

Eumaeus, 111, 249

Euripides, 20–21, 25, 71, 139–140, 155 n.269, 177, 293–294

Eurypylus (son of Telephus), 203, 286–287

Eurytus of Oechalia, 274, 283

Eustathius, 77–78, 102, 247 n.12

Exekias, 143 n.235

fabula, as target of allusion, 35–42

Faktenkanon, 35

family relations, as trope of allusion, 25, 273–279, 285–291

fate, 24, 154, 207 n.102, 266 n.71, 329

Finglass, P. J., 313

Finkelberg, M., 116

fixity

of Homeric epic, 28, 62

of myth, 34–36

of texts, 30, 55 n.203, 58

Ford, A. L., 64, 75

genre, markers of, 15

gods

as figures for the poet, 24

Gorgon, 141, 284

Grethlein, J., 71, 103, 324–325

Hades, 84, 154, 188, 200 n.80, 215, 223, 281, 284

hapax legomenon, Homeric, 8, 90, 100, 130, 276 n.106

Harmodius (and Aristogeiton), 169–172

Haubold, J., 44

Hector

and family, 274, 287–288

as symbol of Troy, 247

characterisation of, 271–273

fate of, 156–157

on Troy, 93

predicts Achilles’ death, 207–208

predicts fall of Troy, 206–207

Helen

alternative stories about, 31 n.102, 311–314

as cause of war, 137

as subject of song, 69, 113

birth of, 136–137

drugs of, 180

memory of, 217 n.132

Helenus, 105, 107, 167, 205

Hephaestus, 49, 190, 255, 300, 320

Hera

and Zeus, 23–24, 126, 189–191, 255, 268

borrows Aphrodite’s girdle, 23–24

enemy of Heracles, 164, 189–190, 255, 268

mother of Typhoeus, 82

opposes Sarpedon’s rescue, 269–270

Heracles

as allusive model, 279 n.117, –280–283

at Cos, 190

at Paros, 223

cheated by Augeas, 254–255

cheated by Laomedon, 189, 255

death of, 153, 156

fights Achelous, 219–221

(im)mortality of, 115 n.139, 155 n.270

in Greek epic, 187–188

infancy of, 164

katabasis of, 140, 153–156, 188, 280–281

labours of, 188–189, 311 n.226

ruler of Argos, 124

sacks Troy, 92 n.71, 94, 143, 189

tears of, 153–156

theomachy of, 257, 274 n.101

Hereas of Megara, 281

Hermes

and Apollo, 25, 127–128

and Leda’s egg, 136

and Pan, 25

and Pandora, 111

as singer, 260

revives Pelops, 320

supporter of Heracles, 283

Herodotus, 31 n.102, 194 n.60

Hesiod

and the Muses, 59, 110–111, 179

as target of allusion, 55–57, 145–152

catalogue poetry, 116–124

named by successors, 51, 53–54

on poetic competition, 67

relationship between Op. and Theog., 58–59, 126–127

relationship to Homer, 76–85

relationship to Trojan epic, 260–262

Hieron, 167, 228, 233, 246, 308–309, 316–317, 321, 323

Hinds, S., 10, 14, 16–17, 19–20

Hipponax, 53–54, 177, 303

Hollander, J., 9

Hollis, A. S., 17

Homer

and Hesiod. See Hesiod, relationship to Homer

and pre-Homeric tradition, 48–49

as target of allusion, 9–10, 56–57, 142, 144, 169, 177, 288–289, 312–314, 316–317, 324–326

Homeric question(s), 28

named by successors, 51–54

relationship between Il. and Od., 59–62, 101–104, 265

Homeric Hymns, 25, 59, 67, 82, 83, 109–110, 114, 115, 127–131, 161–162, 179, 210–211, 260

Höschele, R., 301

Hunter, R. L., 148, 204

Huxley, G. L., 89

Hypnos, 190–191, 268

Iamus, 167–168

Ibycus, 57, 133, 157–159, 170, 301, 318

impersonation, poetic, 71–72

indexicality

definition of, 21–23

inceptive function of, 83–85, 91–92, 255

interpolation, in Homer, 48 n.178, 124 n.171, 258 n.42, 281–282

intertextuality

mythological, 33–43

textual, 51–62

use of term, 6–8, 42–43

intratextuality

use of term, 8, 43

Iphigenia, 36, 268–269

Janko, R., 161

Kakridis, J. T., 161

katabasis, 125, 126, 140, 153, 156, 279, 85. See too Nekyia

Kelly, A., 56–58, 189

King, H., 162

Kirk, G. S., 17, 91

Kolaković, Mehmed, 63 n.243

Kowalzig, B., 169

Kristeva, J., 43

Laertes, 101, 160, 288 n.145

Liapis, V., 283

lies, downgrading traditions as, 108–112

literacy. See writing

Louden, B., 256

lying tales, 111–112, 128–130

Mace, S. T., 301

Meleager, 1–4, 54, 114 n.133, 125–126, 153–156

Melesander of Miletus, 258 n.44

Memnon, 98, 99, 160, 182, 269–270, 287, 315–316

Menelaus, 36, 39, 99, 106, 183, 199, 200, 206, 247, 253–254, 263, 264

Mimnermus, 53, 55, 161, 323–326

‘Monro’s Law’, 60

Morrison, A. D., 17

motif transference, 30–31, 36, 49–51, 64, 65, 152 n.262, –153–155

motival priority. See priority, motival

Muses, 67, 214, 226, 273, 310

and Hesiod. See Hesiod, and the Muses

and memory, 178–181

Calliope, 159

Clio, 308

invocation of, 74, 75, 97, 98, 285, 292, 293, 303–304, 308, 312–314

relationship to poets, 74–76

Terpsichore, 319

mythological intertextuality. See intertextuality, mythological

names of poets. See citation, of poets by name

narrators, 70–72, 74–76

Near Eastern poetry, 44–46, 78–79, 82

Nekyia, 116–117, 123, 196, 206, 224, 279–285

neoanalysis, 29–31, 47–51

Neoboule, 55, 296–297

Neoptolemus, 24, 34, 286–289

Nessus, 219–221

Nestor

as figure for poet, 70

as good counsellor, 264–265

as storyteller, 95–97

as subject of song, 142, 239

cup of, 36–40

old age of, 101–104

reminiscences of, 256–259, 273–274

rescued by Antilochus, 294–295

Nethercut, J. S., 17

Niobe, 131

Norden, E., 17

O’Connell, P., 139

Obbink, D., 139, 306

Odysseus

alternative homecomings of, 97–98, 111–112

and Achilles. See Achilles, and Odysseus

and Diomedes, 205–206

as allusive model, 223–224

as figure for poet, 70

cunning of, 106–107, 113, 120

fame of, 69, 105–106, 113, 180

father of Telemachus, 198–199

forgets advice of Circe, 193, 194

in embassy to Troy, 253–254

katabasis of, 279–285

old age of, 100–101

on Delos, 253

recalls omen at Aulis, 201–204

recruitment of, 196–201

tears of, 249

tells lying tales, 111

transformed into old man, 263

unknown fate of, 94–95

Oedipus, 23, 178, 290 n.150

old age, 100–104, 159–162

Olson, S. D., 130–131

Olympus (Mount), 84, 131

oral traditions, comparative, 32 n.108, 34, 63, 67 n.263, 111 n.124

orality, 27–30

Oresteia myth, 33, 35, 96, 111, 187 n.38, 265

Orestes, 33, 96 n.79, 187, 198 n.70, 265

Ormand, K., 150

Orpheus, 159, 280 n.118

Ovid, 12–15, 116 n.140, 176, 177, 201 n.82, 213, 245

Pandarus, 247, 249, 263, 276, 325

Paris, 24, 36, 50, 55, 56, 115, 207–208, 247, 254, 311

Patroclus, 24, 31, 60, 112, 171–172, 186, 207–208, 247, 266, 269

Peirce, C. S., 21–22

Peirithous, 125–126, 258, 281–285

Peisander, 164

Peisistratus (brother of Antilochus), 98–99, 182–183

Peleus, 34, 105, 141, 216–217, 287, 298–300, 310 n.223, 317

Pelops, 163, 224, 319–321

Penelope, 9, 60 n.228, 94, 97, 98, 117–124, 285, 314

Peponi, A.-E., 231

performance, 64–66

Phaeacians, 195, 266–267

Phemius, 75, 95, 120

Pherecydes, 164

Phillips, T., 80

Philoctetes, 57, 167, 183 n.26, 205 n.97, 286

Phoenix (son of Amyntor), 1–4, 71, 200, 287–288, 290 n.150

Phyleus, 254–255

Pindar

agonistic, 68

alludes to Hesiod, 145–146

and Bacchylides. See Bacchylides, and Pindar

distinguishing mythical variants, 163–164

flexible mythology of, 167–169, 298–300

indexing myth, 141–142, 216–217, 223, 234–237, 294–296

on epinician tradition, 237–240, 297, 303

on Hieron, 228, 233

on oblivion, 214–215

on poetic predecessors, 52, 54, 239, 315–321

on Typhon, 10, 80

self-reference in, 309–311

Polymnestus, 51, 53–54, 239

Polyxena, 34, 35, 36, 205

Poseidon

and Athena. See Athena, and Poseidon

and Pelops, 320

and Pitana, 168

and Tyro, 116–117, 159

and Zeus, 216–217

as κυανοχαίτης, 158 n.277

on division of world, 169

rescues Aeneas, 185

serves Laomedon, 189

Priam, 93, 129–130, 176, 289

priority, motival, 48–50, 115, 185 n.31, 247–248

prophecy, 12, 15, 100, 127–128, 167, 197, 201, 204, 208–209, 217

Quint, D., 9

Rawles, R. J., 162

Ready, J. L., 76

resonance. See traditional referentiality

Rhodes, 168–169

Ricks, C., 9

rivalry. See agonism, poetic

Ross, D., 16

Rutherford, I. C., 116–117

Sammons, B., 87–88, 286, 288, 289

Sappho

and Alcaeus. See Alcaeus, and Sappho

and Aphrodite. See Aphrodite, and Sappho

and Trojan myth, 55, 136–137, 156–157

memories in, 227–232

on immortalising poetry, 133, 215

on Tithonus, 159–166

self-reference in, 138–140, 228–232, 298, 304–308

Sarpedon, 108–109, 142, 239, 269–270, 274

Scaean gates, 50, 207–208

Schwinge, E.-R., 225, 226

Scodel, R. S., 68–70, 107, 149, 199, 213, 250–251, 275

Shey, H. J., 225

Simonides, 51, 54, 146–148, 164, 246

skolia, 65, 142–145, 169–172, 292 n.156, 297 n.177

Slatkin, L. M., 278

song cycles. See cycles, of song

Sophocles, 25, 35, 65, 144, 153–154, 220 n.141, 235–236

Spelman, H. L., 69, 235–236

Stesichorus

allusion in, 56–58

epicising, 221–222

memory in, 217–219

on poetic predecessors, 51–52

Palinode(s) of, 137, 311–314

Sthenelus, 92, 193, 276–279

Styx, 114, 127

suppression of alternative traditions, 89 n.55, 112–116, 124 n.172, 149–156, 196–204, 241–242

Tantalus, 319–321

Taphians, 186

Telamon, 142–144, 298–300, 310 n.223

Telemachus

as doublet of Odysseus, 264

departs Sparta, 57

in Odysseus’ shadow, 274, 289 n.147

on Nestor, 101–104

praises mother, 123–124

seeks news of father, 73, 94–95, 105–106

threatened by Palamedes, 197

κέρδεα of, 120

Telemachy, 194

Telephus, 136 n.199, 198 n.70, 202–203, 287, 291

Terpander, 53–54, 304 n.198

Teuthranian expedition, 136 n.199, 202–204

Theban myth, 86–92, 223, 226, 276–279, 285–286, 292–294, 295–296

Theognis

alludes to Hesiod, 25

on Atalanta, 149–152

on immortalising poetry, 133

on Odysseus, 223–224

on Theban myth, 292–294

sense of authorship, 54

song contest in, 67

theogonic myth, 76–85

Theseus, 13–15, 125–126, 258 n.42, 281–285

Thetis

attempts to immortalise children, 113–115

converses with Achilles, 195

forewarns Achilles, 207

forewarns Neoptolemus, 287

marriage with Peleus, 141, 142, 216–217, 299, 317

mother of Achilles, 105

rescues Achilles, 269

rescues Zeus, 82, 190

Tithonus, 159–166, 225

Torrance, I., 25

traditional referentiality, 29–30, 130–131, 137 n.205, 158–159, 164–165, 212–213

traditionality, rhetoric of, 107, 213

Tsagalis, C. C., 20, 34, 259

Tydeus, 86–92, 274, 275–279, 326

type scenes, 29, 89

Typhoeus, 76–85, 260

Tyrannicides. See Harmodius (and Aristogeiton)

Tyro, 116–118, 121, 124, 159

Tyrtaeus, 161 n.283, 224–226, 240 n.204, 293 n.161

Virgil, 4, 9–12, 15, 245

West, M. L., 103

West, S. R., 39, 120

Wilkinson, C. L., 158

Wright, M. E., 20

writing, 62

Xanthus (horse), 17, 92 n.70, 207

Xenophanes, 52–53, 134 n.191, 321–323

Zeus

and Ganymedes, 293 n.159, 320

and Hera. See Hera, and Zeus

and Sarpedon, 269–270

as adulterer, 122, 141

as father, 108–109, 136, 141, 294

conquers Typhoeus, 76–80

jars of, 316

saves Aeneas, 185

supplicated by Thetis, 57

thunderbolt of, 92, 278–279

unstable rule of, 84, 190

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