Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic

Jonathan L. Ready, Ph.D. (2004), University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. His most recent monograph is Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad (2023).Christos Tsagalis, Ph.D. (1998), Cornell University, is Professor of Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has authored 9 monographs: Epic Grief (2004); The Oral Palimpsest (2008); Inscribing Sorrow (2008); Space in the Iliad, (2012); Ομηρικές μελέτες (2016); Early Greek Epic Fragments I (2017); Τέχνη ραψωδική (2018); Early Greek Fragments II (2022); Early Greek Poetry: Language, Interpretation, Performance (2023).Contributors are: Margalit Finkelberg, David Quint, Connor Purcell Wood, Marcus Ziemann, Seth L. Schein.

• Preface1 Homer’s Moving Pictures: Audio-Visual Aspects of the Scar Episode (Odyssey 19.386–504)Margalit Finkelberg2 Heroism and Loot in the IliadDavid Quint3 Formular Mutation and the Oral Character of the Cyclic ThebaidConnor Purcell Wood4 Raising the Dead: the Neo-Assyrian Ideological Background of Odyssey 11Marcus Ziemann5 Commenting on HomerSeth L. Schein