pt. 1. The poems and their narrator. The Iliad : an unpredictable classic / Donald Lateiner
The Odyssey and its explorations / Michael Silk
The story-teller and his audience / Ruth Scodel
pt. 2. The characters. The Gods in the Homeric epics / Emily Kearns
Manhood and heroism / Michael Clarke
Gender and Homeric epic / Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin
pt. 3. The poet's craft. Formulas, metre and type-scenes / Matthew Clark
Similes and other likenesses / Richard Buxton
The speeches / Jasper Griffin
pt. 4. Text and context. Epic as genre / John Miles Foley
The epic tradition in Greece / Ken Dowden
Homer's society / Robin Osborne
The Homeric question / Robert Fowler
pt. 5. Homeric receptions. Homer and Greek literature / Richard Hunter
Roman Homer / Joseph Farrell
Homer and English epic / Penelope Wilson
Homer and the Romantics / Timothy Webb
Homer and Ulysses / Vanda Zajko
Homer : the history of an idea / James I. Porter
"Shards and suckers" : contemporary receptions of Homer / Lorna Hardwick
Homer in English translation / George Steiner
