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episodes ignored or rejected by
events outside the time parameters of
final form of
first known reference to
greatness of
heroic view of war questioned by
lapses in memory of
Lattimore's translation of , xix,
meaning of
natural world similes in ,
origins of
plot outline of
as religious text
structure of,
transformed into martial epic glorifying war
transforming choices and
see also specific topics
Ilias Persis
(
The Sack of Ilion
)
Ilion,
see
Trojans, Troy
Ilios,
immortality,
individual destiny
Indo-European:
Swelénā
Zeus in
Indo-European myth and tradition,
abduction of Sun Maiden in
cremation and,
Dawn Goddess and her mortal lovers in,
fire-water pairings in,
heroic conventions and
Sky God in
Io
Iolkos(map)
king of
Peleus' sack of,
Ionia, Ionians,
Iphis,
Iraq War, xiii,
Iris:
as messenger to Achilles
as messenger to Hektor
as messenger to Helen
as messenger to Priam
as messenger to Thetis
Iron Age,
see
Dark (Iron) Age
Ishtar
Ishtar-Astarte
Jason and the Argonauts
jewelry,
Judgment of Paris
Kadesh, Battle of,
Kalchas
Kalydon
Kalydonian Boar Hunt ,
Kassandra
Keats, John
Keegan, John
Kleopatra
kléos
(rumor, report, news)
Kolb, Frank,
Korfmann, Manfred,
koruthaíolos,
use of term
Kronos, Zeus' overthrowing of ,
Laodike
Laomedon,
Laothoë
Latin
Lattimore, Richmond, xix,
leadership
of Achilles
of Agamemnon,
of Hektor
Leda
Lefkandi(map)
burial above,
Lemnos
“leopard men,”
Lesbos(map)
Achilles purified in,
Euboia's contacts with,
Mycenaean arrival in,
Trojan War associations with,
women from,
Lesches
Leto
Linear B script
Linear B tablets,
Achilles in
Aiólos in
Alexandros in
deities in
Hektor in
inventory lists in
women's work in,
lion imagery
literacy
Little Iliad
(attributed to Lesches)
Livius Andronicus
Lokrians
Lokris
Longinus
Luwian language
Luwians,
Lycurgus,
Lykaon,
Lykia
Lykomedes, King
lyre,
MacDiarmid, Hugh (“Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries”),
Machaon
Machen, Arthur
Maia
malaria,
Malawi, iron smelting in,
Marines, U.S.,
Marmara, Sea of
“Medon,”
Meges
Melanippus
Meleager ,
Apollo as slayer of,
fire in legend of,
Memnon,
Menelaos, king of Sparta
Adrestos captured by
Antenor's characterization of
Antimachos' advocacy of killing of,
evocation of Zeus' punishment
in funeral games
Helen's postwar life with
paired brothers motif and,
Paris' battlefield encounter with
Paris' duel with,
see
duel, Paris-Menelaos
Patroklos' corpse and
Menesthios,
mēnis
(wrath),
Menoitios,
Meriones,
at funeral games
metalworker status
Middle Ages
Middle East
Minos, King,
Mogadishu, U.S. Rangers dragged through
Mons
Moran, Lord
mothers, of warriors
multitude,
murder and purification theme ,
Murine,
Murray, Gilbert
Mursili II,
Muwattalli II, Hittite king,
Mycenae, Mycenaeans, Mycenaean world(map),
Agamemnon's homecoming to
archaeology of,
army of,
in Black Sea region,
graves of,
inventories of
loss of,
memories of
palace-citadels of
place-names in Catalogue of Ships and ,
raids of
as refugees,
regional differences of
Troy cemetery for
warrior goddesses of
wealth of
Zeus-Hera pact and
Myrmidon (city of cannibals)
Myrmidons ,
Achilles' mustering of
in Catalogue of Ships,
as distinct from Phthians,
mourning of
origins of,
Patroklos' funeral and
Patroklos given command of
status and function of
withdrawal of
Mysians
Nasiriya,
nature, natural world:
fights against,
similes from,
Near East
Apollo's origins in,
child sacrifice in,
testing-of-army motif in,
treaty formats in,
warrior goddesses in
Nemesis
Neoptolemos,
Nereids
Nereus,
Nestor, king of Pylos
on Agamemnon's dream
authority of
Diomedes rebuked by
at funeral games
intervention in Achilles-Agamemnon quarrel by
as long lived
morale bolstering of
Patroklos' encounter with
Phoinix compared with
on plunder
Niobe,
Nostoi
(
Returns
) (epic)
oath taking:
Achilles-Hektor combat and
of Agamemnon
of Helen's suitors,
terms of duel and
Zeus' upholding of
Octavian (later Roman emperor Augustus)
Odysseus
Aias' competition with ,
Antenor's characterization of
descent to Hades of,
in Doloneia,
in Embassy to Achilles
at funeral games,
Helen's identification of
morale bolstering of
nocturnal mission to Trojan camp of ,
in Phthia
quarrels of
in Skyros
Thersites' relationship with
war memories of
Odyssey
(Homer)
divine deception in,
English translation of
Hades in,
Hermes in
impotence and nonbeing of the dead in
Latin versions or imitations of
Menelaos in,
Phaiakian court in
portraits of professional singers in
quarrels between heroes in
offerings,
blood,
Okeanos,
Olympic Games
Olympos, Mount
Hephaistos thrown from
as home of gods
maintaining peace on
return of gods to
Thetis' visits to
omens
snake as
“On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” (Keats)
On the Sublime
(Longinus)
Opous
oral storytelling
outlaws:
Peleus' court of,
wolves as model for,
Paiëon,
paired brothers motif,
paired or inseparable heroes theme
Pallas,
Pandaros
Paris
Achilles' death and,
Aphrodite's desire for
Aphrodite's whisking away of ,
arming of
battlefield absences of ,
beauty contest judged by
death of
Hektor's disparagement of
Helen awarded to
Helen's abduction or seduction by ,
Helen's loathing for
Menelaos' battlefield encounter with
Menelaos' duel with,
see
duel, Paris-Menelaos
paired brothers motif and,
in Sparta
two names of,
parsley
Patroklos
Achilles and,
see
Achilles
Antilochos compared with,
arming of
armor of,
death of ,
epithets of
evil for
exile of
fight for body of
funeral games for,
see
funeral games
funeral of,
ghost of
Homer's development of,
meaning of name of
medicinal art of
Nestor's encounter with
number of Trojans killed by ,
Sarpedon's death and
peace, Achilles' shield and
Pedaios
Pedasos
pederasty,
Peirithoös of Thessaly
Peleus,
Achilles' filial bonds with
Achilles' homecoming and
biography and career of
marriages of ,
Menoetius as brother of
old age of,
Phoinix as replacement of
postwar fate of
shadowy presence of,
themes that cluster around ,
wedding gifts of ,
Pelion, Mount, Pelion Mountains ,
Peloponnese(map)
Penthesilea (Amazon queen) ,
Persephone
petrification,
Phaiakians
Phereklos
Philoktetes,
Philostratus
Phoenicians,
Phoinix
as Homeric invention,
Meleager tale of
Phokos,
Phthia(map),
Achilles' thoughts of
boundaries of
Nestor in
Patroklos' flight to
Peleus cast out of
Peleus' court of outlaws in,
as Waste Land,
Pindar,
place-names, in Catalogue of Ships ,
Plato, xiv,
Pleuron, rowers' list for,
plunder
Podarge
Podargos
Polydore,
Polydoros
Polyxena,
Poseidon
Aineias rescued by,
intervention in war by
offerings to,
“spreading of the bed” and
possessions
of Helen
in inventory lists
pottery,
Poulydamas
power
powerlessness, of Helen
Precepts of Cheiron
(poem)
Priam, king of Troy ,
Achaean warriors' identity queried by ,
daughters of
death of
Hektor implored by
Hektor's corpse retrieved by
Hektor's death and
honor of
Iris as messenger to
old age of
origin of name of
Paris-Menelaos duel and
predictions of
sons of
symbolic journey to Hades of ,
prizes:
for funeral games ,
see also
war prizes
Proclus
Proitos
Prometheus,
prophetic powers, prophecy ,
Psalms, book of
Psamathe,
psychopompós
(guide of the souls)
Pylos(map),
quarrels between heroes
see also specific quarrels
Ramses II,
Rangers, U.S.
ransom
for Hektor's body
rape,
recitation:
of genealogies,
of
Iliad
refugees, Mycenaean ,
religious festival sites, lists of ,
Rhadamanthys,
Rhesos, King,
Rhodes,
Roman de Troie
Roman Empire
Aineias as founder of
knowledge of Homer in
split of
rowers, list of,
sacrifice
child,
of domestic animals,
hero cults and,
human
to Zeus
St. Elmo's fire,
Salamis islanders,
Samothrace
Sarpedon of Lykia ,
scepter of the assembly,
Achilles' taking of
Agamemnon's use of
Odysseus' use of
scorched-earth tactics
seers
Shay, Jonathan
Shield of Heracles
(Hesiod)
shields
of Achilles ,
of Agamemnon,
of Hektor,
ships,
Achilles at
Aias' defense of
fire around
Hektor's arrival at
Priam's going down to
saving of
see also
Catalogue of Ships
shipwrecks,
similes

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