[First posted in AWOL 20 May 2016, updated 27 December 2022]
Audible Punctuation: Performative Pause in Homeric Prosody
Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a
performative aspect of delivery, arguing for the possibilities and
limits of expressing phrases in performance. Ronald Blankenborg’s
analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing
shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different…
Read more
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez
José Luis Melena Jiménez is a peerless scholar of editing
the texts written in the Mycenaean writing system of the late second
millennium BCE and explicating their linguistic and “historical”
contents. This volume takes up problems of script and language
representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of
punctuation…
Read more
Demetrios of Scepsis and His Troikos Diakosmos: Ancient and Modern Readings of a Lost Contribution to Ancient Scholarship
Ancient scholarship had many faces, but most have faded
away over time. Demetrios of Scepsis is one of the more shadowy of these
lost figures, best known for his commentary on the Trojan Catalogue in
Book 2 of the Iliad. Alexandra Trachsel’s work represents the first
treatment dedicated to Demetrios of Scepsis…
Read more
Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority
This book is about Salentine Greek—or simply Griko—a
language of Greek origins transmitted orally from generation to
generation in Salento, in the Apulian province of Lecce, the ‘heel’ of
the boot of Italy. Its pool of speakers started shrinking after the
contact that had once existed with Greece receded in the…
Read more
In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia
In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia is
the first full-length study to examine Eudocia’s writings as a unified
whole and to situate them within their wider fifth-century literary,
social, and religious contexts. Responsible for over 3,000 lines of
extant poetry, Eudocia is one of the…
Read more
Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus
Oedipus’s major handicap in life is not knowing who he
is–and both parricide and incest result from his ignorance of his
identity. With two questions—”Who am I?” and “Who is my father?”—on his
mind (and on his lips), the obsessed Oedipus arrives at the oracle of
Delphi. Unlike the majority…
Read more
Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic
epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant
evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among
the missing are the songs of Boeotian Thebes. Homer’s Thebes examines
moments in the Iliad and Odyssey where…
Read more
One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as
scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on
composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad
and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What is lost in
the journey from the stage…
Read more
Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer
Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to
return home and die a pathetic death at his wife’s hands. Yet while
Agamemnon’s story exerts an outsize influence—rivaled by few epic
personalities—on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and Odyssey,
scholars have not adequately considered his full portrait. What was…
Read more
Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment
Responding to George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s analysis
of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets’ use of
concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their
audiences’ understanding of abstract concepts. In particular, he
considers Homeric images that associate flowers with the concepts of
deception, disorder, and…
Read more
And see AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies
Audible Punctuation: Performative Pause in Homeric Prosody
Audible Punctuation focuses on the pause in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, both as a compositional feature and as a performative aspect of delivery, arguing for the possibilities and limits of expressing phrases in performance. Ronald Blankenborg’s analysis of metrical, rhythmical, syntactical, and phonological phrasing shows that the text of the Homeric epic allows for different… Read more
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez
José Luis Melena Jiménez is a peerless scholar of editing the texts written in the Mycenaean writing system of the late second millennium BCE and explicating their linguistic and “historical” contents. This volume takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation… Read more
Demetrios of Scepsis and His Troikos Diakosmos: Ancient and Modern Readings of a Lost Contribution to Ancient Scholarship
Ancient scholarship had many faces, but most have faded away over time. Demetrios of Scepsis is one of the more shadowy of these lost figures, best known for his commentary on the Trojan Catalogue in Book 2 of the Iliad. Alexandra Trachsel’s work represents the first treatment dedicated to Demetrios of Scepsis… Read more
Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-storying of a Linguistic Minority
This book is about Salentine Greek—or simply Griko—a language of Greek origins transmitted orally from generation to generation in Salento, in the Apulian province of Lecce, the ‘heel’ of the boot of Italy. Its pool of speakers started shrinking after the contact that had once existed with Greece receded in the… Read more
In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia
In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia is the first full-length study to examine Eudocia’s writings as a unified whole and to situate them within their wider fifth-century literary, social, and religious contexts. Responsible for over 3,000 lines of extant poetry, Eudocia is one of the… Read more
Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus
Oedipus’s major handicap in life is not knowing who he is–and both parricide and incest result from his ignorance of his identity. With two questions—”Who am I?” and “Who is my father?”—on his mind (and on his lips), the obsessed Oedipus arrives at the oracle of Delphi. Unlike the majority… Read more
Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates that they emerged from a thriving oral culture. Among the missing are the songs of Boeotian Thebes. Homer’s Thebes examines moments in the Iliad and Odyssey where… Read more
One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
This book plumbs the virtues of the Homeric poems as scripts for solo performance. Despite academic focus on orality and on composition in performance, we have yet to fully appreciate the Iliad and Odyssey as the sophisticated scripts that they are. What is lost in the journey from the stage… Read more
Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer
Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to return home and die a pathetic death at his wife’s hands. Yet while Agamemnon’s story exerts an outsize influence—rivaled by few epic personalities—on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and Odyssey, scholars have not adequately considered his full portrait. What was… Read more
Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment
Responding to George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets’ use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences’ understanding of abstract concepts. In particular, he considers Homeric images that associate flowers with the concepts of deception, disorder, and… Read more
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