Homer’s Odyssey: The Man Skilled in All Ways of
Contending and the Singer of Tales
- The Real Homer: c. 750-650 BCE
- The Blind Bard: Homer and the Tradition
- Milman Parry and Albert Lord Discover Real Bards
- The Dark Ages (1200-900 BCE) and the Dorian Invasion
- Heinrich Schliemann and the Discovery of Troy
- The Trojan War: Bronze Age Greece, c. 1250-1240 BCE
- The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships
- The Iliad: The Battle for Troy
- The Greek Warrior Ethos
- Two Epics, Two Heroes, Two Homers?: Comparing the Iliad and
the Odyssey
- Tales of War and Peace
- The Maturing of the Epic Hero
- The Bard and Tradition
- The Divine and the Human in Homer
- The Greek Pantheon
- Fate and the Limits of Divine Intervention
- Crooked Kronos
- Divine Justice
- Telemakhos’ Journey and the Consequences of War
- Beginning in the Middle
- A Son’s Quest
- The Restoration of Order
- Visits Abroad: Nestor in Pylos; Menelaos and Helen in Mycenae
- Nestor’s Wisdom
- Helen Drugs the Wine
- The Suitors Plot Telemakhos’ Death
- Kalypso’s Care and Nausikaa’s Welcome
- Why go home?
- Washing Up on Shore
- Nausikaa Greets the Stranger
- The Honored Guest and the Harper’s Songs
- Alkinoos, Calm in Power
- Books VII and VIII: Odysseus in Disguise
- Odysseus and the Harper
- The Essay