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Studies of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Dividing Homer (continued): Innovation vs. Tradition in Homer - an Overlooked Piece of Evidence
Berg, Nils; Haug, Dag
Symbolae Osloenses, 2000, Volume 75, No. 1
In Homeric studies, the evidence of metrics has often been overlooked. The authors argue that the hexameter must be a recent development, closely bound up with the transition from an Aeolic to a Ionic phase in the development of the epic diction. The Ionic phase must have been very short, and the rise of the Iliad is probably also to be situated at the very moment of change in meter and dialect.

Major Systems of Thematic Resonance in the Iliad
Heiden, Bruce
Symbolae Osloenses, 2000, Volume 75, No. 1
It has been suggested (Heiden 1996) that in the Iliad thematically analogous "Achilles-decision" books (books 1, 9, and 16) and thematically analogous "Zeus-decision" books (books 8, 15, and 24) are arranged in analogous positions at the beginnings and ends of three "movements" (1-8, 9-15, 16-24 = A1-Z1, A2-Z2, A3-Z3). This observation provides the key to a comprehensive system that relates many distant segments of the Iliad. The parallel relationship of thematically resonant beginnings and ends extends to the interior segments of the "movements". Moreover, each movement displays an internal arrangement based on symmetrical ring composition. These two systems are coordinated. They might have served to cue audience recall and comparison of distant thematically resonant segments.

The Gods of The Iliad and the Fate of Troy
Kip, A. Maria Van Erp Taalman
Mnemosyne, 2000, Volume 53, No. 4

Characterization Through Gnomai in Homer's Iliad
Lardinois, A.
Mnemosyne, 2000, Volume 53, No. 6

Sources of Persuasion in the Iliad
Reyes, G. Mitchell
Rhetoric Review, 2002, 21(1): 22-39

Dividing Homer: When and How were the Iliad and the Odyssey Divided into Songs?
Rossi, Luigi Enrico
Symbolae Osloenses, 2001, Volume 76, No. 1

A Note on the Strange Death of Mydon in Iliad 5
Saunders, Kenneth B.
Symbolae Osloenses, 2000, Volume 75, No. 1
This note reconsiders the notorious problem of the chariot-driver Mydon, killed by a blow to the head, who falls head first into soft sand and apparently stays standing head down and upright. The nineteenth century theory of cataleptic rigidity is finally disposed of by modern medical considerations. A solution is proposed which involves an alternative sense of ιστημι and a potentially redundant line. If this is thought too aggressive, van Leeuwen's interpretation, not mentioned in recent commentaries, is to be preferred.