Epos. Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology: Proceedings of the 11th International Aegean Conference / 11E Rencontre Egeenne Inte

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Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments List of abbreviations I. EPOS AND LOGOS: HOMER AND TROY - Malcolm WIENER, Homer and History: Old Questions, New Evidence - Marianna NIKOLAIDOU and Dimitra KOKKINIDOU, Epos, History, Metahistory in Aegean Bronze Age Studies - Maureen BASEDOW, Troy without Homer: the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Troad - Sarah P. MORRIS, Troy Between Bronze and Iron Ages: Myth, Cult and Memory in a Sacred Landscape II. EPOS AND EIKON: ART, POETRY AND WRITING - John YOUNGER, The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song - Robert LAFFINEUR, Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background? - Edmund F. BLOEDOW, Homer and the depas amphikypellon - L. Vance WATROUS, The Fleet Fresco, the Odyssey and Greek Epic Narrative - Andreas VLACHOPOULOS, Mythos, Logos and Eikon. Motifs of Early Greek Poetry in the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3 III. WANAX AND BASILEUS: RULERSHIP IN HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY - Pierre CARLIER, Are the Homeric Basileis 'Big Men'? - Thomas G. PALAIMA, Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View - Bryan E. BURNS, Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture - Brendan BURKE, Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age - Eric H. CLINE and Assaf YASUR-LANDAU, Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative Art at Tel Kabri IV. BEYOND ELITE: HOMERIC SOCIETY AND ARCHAEOLOGY - Kim S. SHELTON, Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority of the Mycenaean Civilization - Helene WHITTAKER, Sacrificial Practice and Warfare in Homer and in the Bronze Age - Andrea GUZETTI, Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons For a Missed Encounter V. EPOS AND MYTHOS - Ernestine S. ELSTER, Odysseys Before Homer: Trade, Travel, and Adventure in Prehistoric Greece - Cynthia S. COLBURN, The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean - Fritz BLAKOLMER, The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting 'Heroes' on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos? - Massimo PERNA, Homer and the 'Folded Wooden Tablets' VI. EPOS AND TOPOS: HOMERIC LANDSCAPES - Oliver DICKINSON, Aspects of Homeric Geography - Philip P. BETANCOURT, The Amnissos Cave: Poetry Meets Reality - Aleydis VAN DE MOORTEL, The Site of Mitrou and East Lokris in 'Homeric Times' - Anne P. CHAPIN and Louise A. HITCHCOCK, Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us - Naya SGOURITSA, Myth, Epos and Mycenaean Attica: The Evidence Reconsidered