INDEX

SUBJECTS AND PROPER NAMES

Abai, colony of Abas, 35 and Diomedes in funeral games, 77 Abantes, and ash spears, 32-40, 58, Aigialeus, son of Melia, 52, 53 86 A ithiopis, and Hoplopoiia, 22 Abas, Allen, W. S., Greek stress accent, genealogy and deeds, 35, 36 II, 12 his shield and Achilles' shield, Analogy, as a critical method, 96, 97 36-40 Anaxagoras, on origin of fire, 56 and Abantes' ash spears, 39, 40, 86 Apis, son of Phoroneus, 53 Accent (stress), in Greek, 11, 12 Apollo, Achilles, in disarming and death of Patro­ armor and arming, 20-22, 24, 27, klos, 25, 65 69-71 and Melia, parents of Teneros and exchange of armor with Patroklos, lsmenos, 52, 54, 55 23-28, 61, 62 debate with Aeneas, 72, 73 armor, fire, Hephaistos, and Hop- Arend, W., on typical scenes in lopoiia, 28-30, 69, 70, 94, 95 Homer, 20, 21 shield and Ahas, 39 Ares, duel with Athene, 27 ash spear, 31, 68, 70-86 Argos, and Abas, 35-40 and compositional context, 90, 91 Arming scenes, as patterned episodes, as descendant of Zeus, 80 21, 24, 26 Actium, and shields of Aeneas and Armor, Abas, 36-40 exchange of, 23-27, 61, 62 Afvattha tree, source of madhu/man­ symbolism in Iliad, 25-27 na, 50 Ash nymphs, see Melia and Meliai Adrasteia, and Meliai and Nemesis, Ash spear, 49, 50 and Abantes, 32-40 Adrestos, slain by Agamemnon, 60 and ash tree, 43 Aeneas, extraction and recovery of, 59-61, and Abas' shield, 36-40 67, 68, 73-75, 82-85 debate with Apollo, 72, 73 and fire and lightning, 45, 46, 61, battle with Achilles, 72-74 62, 81 and Zeus, 80 and first man, mortality, and Aeolic base, and hexameter, 13 genealogy, 45-47, 59, 6o, 70 Agamemnon, restricted use in Iliad, 40, 71, 72, arms and arming, 24, 26, 28 84-86 slayer of Adrestos, 6o decisive role in narrative, 62, 68, Agenor, and ash spear, 61 71, 72, 81-84 Agni bhuraIJ.yu, Indic fire god, and of Achilles, 31, 32, 69-86, 88-91 Phoroneus, 54 in battle of Achilles and Aeneas, Aias Oiliades, and Lokrian peltasts, 72-74 59 in battle of Achilles and Astero­ Aias (Telamonian), paios, 75, 76 armor and arming, 24, 26 in death of Hektor, 82-84 in catalogue of ships, 33 Ash tree, and Aias Oiliades, 59 taxonomy, distribution, and char­ ash spear and firing of ships, 61, 62 acteristics, 40-44 l02 INDEX

mythological associations, 44-57, Connotation, and specialized diction 84, 85 in the Iliad, 90-94 in mortality and origin of mortals, Comu Copiae, association with Amal­ 44:48, 57, 70 theia and the Meliai, 50 and origin of bronze race, 47, 72, 73 Dactylic hexameter, see Hexameter and genealogy from Zeus, 72, 73 Dale, A. M., criticism of tetra­ and fertility, bees, and honey, colonic theory, 5, 6 49-51 Danaos, grandfather of Ahas, 35-38 and fire and lightning, 54-56, Denotation, as a compositional de­ 79-81 terminant, 87-90 power against snakes, 56 Diomedes, in similes in Iliad, 32, 57, 58 exchange of armor with Glaukos, Ash wood, as material of spear 26; shafts, 43, 44, 87, 88 and Aias at Patroklos' funeral askr, Old Norse for "ash tree" and games, 77 "ash spear", 43, 45 Doloneia, and adaptability of typ­ Askr, first man of Nordic mythology, ical scenes, 21 45 Elephenor, Asteropaios, leader of Paionians, 76 leader of Abantes, 33 genealogy, 35 battle with Achilles, 72, 75, 76 Enjambement, armor at Patroklos' funeral games, and internal structure of the 76, 77 hexameter, 8, 9 Athene, duel with Ares, 27 as patroness of Achilles, 69, 82, 83 and use of µtAL7) and 'Axtlltu~. Axios, river, grandfather of Astero­ 89 Episode structure, flexibility and paios, 75, 79 line structure, 94-96 Bassett, S. E., on ancient theories Epithets, of caesura, 3, 9 relationship to meaning and con­ Beekes, R. S. P., on rules for word­ text, 15, 16 localization, 7 compositionally redundant, 66, 67 Bees, association with Meliai and Epithet-systems, ash trees, 49-51 of Achilles and Odysseus com­ "Bee-sucken" ash, and honey, 50 pared, 89, 90 Bolling, G. M., on Hoplopoiia, 22 and loµµtAL7)~. 91 Bronze race, Erinyes, association with Meliai, origin from ash trees, 47, 72, 73 48, 49 first race created by Zeus, 47, Euboia, 72, 73 Homeric geography, 34 as colony of Ahas, 35, 36 Caesura, Euphorbos, ancient theories of, 3, 9 slayer of Patroklos, 25, 58, 64-68 structural functions of, 9 with epithet wµµtAL7)~. 64-68, 91 and formulae, 14, 15, 17 Catalogue of ships, and ash spears, 33 Fire, Chalkodon, name and genealogy, 35 origin from ash trees, 53-56 Cheiron, brought by Phoroneus, son of centaur, donor of Peleus' ash Melia, 53, 54 spear, 31, 32, 52 and firing of ships, ash spear, and and Pholos, son of Melia, 52 exchange of armor, 61, 62 Compositional technique, narrative and water in battle of Hephaistos and thematic restriction in, 94-96 and Skamander, 78-80