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6 X 10.Long New.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19449-5 - Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature Lawrence Kim Index More information Index Achilles, see Homeric characters Charybdis, see Homeric characters Acusilaus of Argos 28–9, 112 Cicero, De partitione oratoria 106 Aelian, Varia historia Circe, see Homeric characters 13.22 on Galaton 16 Corinnus of Ilium 178–9, 207 13.22 on Homereia 8, 9 Crates of Mallus 8, 48 11.2 on pre-Homeric epic 179 dating of Homer 25 Aeolus, see Homeric characters Ctesias of Cnidus 63–4, 142, 144, 145–6, 148–50 Aethra, see Homeric characters Cyclopes, see Homeric characters Agamemnon, see Homeric characters Cynics 91, 98 ainittesthai/ainigma 36–7, 72, 75, 83–4, 98 allegorical interpretation, see Homeric poetry Dares of Phrygia 15–16, 18, 179–81, 186, 188–9 Antiphanes of Berga 147–8 Demetrius of Scepsis 48, 50 Antisthenes of Athens 6, 36 Dictys of Crete 15–16, 18, 179–81, 186, 188–9 Antonius Diogenes, The Wonders Beyond Thule didaskalia, see instruction 141 Dio Chrysostom Apion 163 Cynicism 118 Apollodorus of Athens 48, 50 Homer, general treatment of 86 Archelaus of Priene, Apotheosis of Homer 8 dating of 132–3 Aristarchus of Samothrace 8, 55, 164, 194 Lies, definition of 95–7 heroic simplicity, on 27 Oration 294 HomerasAthenian 8, 9 Oration 7 (Euboean) 181, 197–8 Homer, dating of 25–6 Oration 11 (Trojan) HomerfromHomer 85 audience 93 Homer’s knowledge of Ethiopia 53 fictionality 103–4, 108–12, 137–9 ‘Separatists’ (Chorizontes), vs. 166 Herodotus, allusion to 122–3 Aristides, Aelius Oration 52 18 Homer, defense of 135–8 Aristodemus of Nysa 82, 166 Persian Wars 136–7 Aristotle 27 purpose 88–90, 136–9 Homer, as evidence of heroic age 26, 27 refutation/anaskeue,as 116–18, 128–30 Homer, dating of 26 Rome, attitude toward 88–9, 137 Homeric Problems 7, 120 scholarship on 88–90 Poetics 30, 115, 117, 121 Thucydides, reference to 133–4 Arrian, Periplus 23.4195 Oration 18.85 Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11–12, 27 Oration 36 (Borystheniticus) 93–5, 109, autopsy/eyewitness testimony 31, 144, 147–8, 197–9 185–9, 199–202 Oration 47 97 Oration 53.6–8 (On Homer) 5 Calypso, see Homeric characters Oration 60 (Nessus) 117–18 Castor and Pollux, see Homeric characters Strabo, comparison with 92, 135–6 Cephalon of Gergis/Gergitha 110 Diodorus Siculus 4.123 charizesthai 2, 97, 131–3, 209 Dionysius of Halicarnassus 25, 27, 84 239 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19449-5 - Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature Lawrence Kim Index More information 240 Index Ps.-Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Figured relics of 17–18, 22, 39 Speeches B 11 simple/primitive nature of 27 Dionysius Scytobrachion 110, 155 Hesiod 95 doxa 90–3, 133 contest with Homer 167, 168–9, 207 on Odysseus’ wanderings 57 Egyptian priest(s), as literary device Homer Dio, Or. 11 103–4, 108–12, 113, 123, 189 biographical tradition, see Lives of Homer Herodotus 31–2, 123, 189 birthplace, debates over 164–8 eikos 24, 32–3, 43, 115, 117–18, 119, 128–30, blindness 164 177–8 dating of, ancient 25–6, 39–40, 55, 132–3, 207 Ephorus of Cyme 23, 166 ethnic identity and origin 164–8 Ethiopians, explanation of 53–4 Athenian 8, 9 myth and history, blends 64 Babylonian 164–7 Eratosthenes of Cyrene 50, 56–60 Egyptian 166–7 poet aims at entertainment, not instruction Roman 166 56, 61 Syrian 166 Homer as ‘fictionalizer’ 57–60 exaggerates historical reality 41, 78, 132–3, Homer as historian 57 209 Eudoxus of Cyzicus 147–8 fictionalizes/invents 57–60, 154–5, 173–4, 178, Euhemerus of Messene 111, 147–8, 155 202 Eustathius 19, 70, 116, 119 gods, depiction of 25, 98–100, 140–1 eyewitness testimony, see autopsy Greekness, symbol of 7, 8, 9–10, 12–13, 93–5, 182 Gorgias, Helen 85–6, 91–2 ‘hints’ at the historical truth 33–7, 43–4, 72, Greekness, Homer as symbol of 7, 8, 9–10, 73–4, 75, 78, 79–80, 121–2 12–13, 81–4, 93–5 image of 3, 12, 80 beggar 97 Hecataeus of Miletus 24, 28–9, 47–8, 64, 66 camel 206–7 rationalizing interpretation 32–3 Herodotus 37, 45–6 Hector, see Homeric characters historian 12–13, 51–6, 83–4, 205–6 Hegesianax of Alexandria Troas 110 improviser 107, 121–2 Helen, see Homeric characters inquirer (punthanesthai) 52–5, 57, 75–7 Heliodorus, An Ethiopian Tale 16, 158, 166–7 liar 97–100, 107, 121–2, 127 Hellanicus of Lesbos 28–9, 35, 63–4, 148 philhellene 131–3 Heraclides of Pontus 120 plagiarist 20 Heraclitus, Homeric Allegories 5, 6, 10, 66, 80, ‘real’ person 12, 20, 25–6, 48–9, 51–6, 80–1, 183 131–3, 207 Ps.-Heraclitus, On Incredible Things 73 source of all wisdom 51, 152, 192 Herodotus Strabo’s 80–1 fiction, nascent concept of 33 technical ‘instructor’ 6, 152 HeleninEgypt 30–5, 110, 122–3, 177, 209 Thucydides 43–6 Homer, dating of 30 traveller 52, 54–5, 97, 208 Homer, general reference to witness in courtroom 100 Homer, image of 37, 45–6, 54, 80–1 knows the historical ‘truth’ 33–7, 43–6, Homeric ‘hints’ 33–7, 43–4 206–11 Homeric locations, identifies 47–8 knows geography 50–1 Lucian, referred to by 142, 148–50 myths, use of 60–81, 149–50, 202 myths, use of criticized by Strabo 63–4 historians, compared to 62–4, 149–50 rationalizing interpretation 32–3 historical truth, as elaborations of 61–4, heroic age 67–71 genealogies of 22–3 instruction/benefit, for 64–6, 68–9, historiography of 23, 24 135–6 Homer as witness of narrative, manipulation of 101–8, 178 Imperial Greek interest in 12–13 reception in Imperial period 9–21 kinship diplomacy 22, 26 reception in Hellenistic period 7–9 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19449-5 - Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature Lawrence Kim Index More information Index 241 reception in Classical period Menelaus Roman attitude toward 9 duel with Paris 178 Second Sophistic, in the 14–15 eyewitness source of Trojan War 31 silence not a sign of ignorance 77 wanderings of 77–8 sources of information 98–9, 187–8, 206–11 moly 183 Homeric poetry Mysian expedition, omission of 193–5 allegorical interpretation of 6, 10–11, 12, 35–7, Nausicaa 68 51, 66, 98, 183 Nekuia 157, 190, 214 heroic past, used as evidence for 12–13, 25–7, Nile, silting of 77–8 28–9, 40–4 Nireus 159–60 historical exegesis of 71–7 Ocean 30, 36, 78–80 historical fiction, understood as 2, 24–5 Odysseus moralizing interpretation of 6, 8–9, 11–12, ‘Cretan tales’ 151 64–6 death of 19 palimpsestic texts of 15–20 narrator, as 102, 103–4, 151–4 ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ 17, 19, 116–17, 126 wanderings of 56–60, 61–4, 67–77, 78–80 rationalizing interpretation of 114–22, Palamedes, omission of 190 202–3 Phaeacian tales 151–6, 178, 202 revision of 15–20 Pharos, location of 77–8 rewriting of 17–18 Philoctetes, ships and crew 42 rhetorical interpretation of 11 piracy, evidence for ancient 38 Homeric characters, places, topics, etc. Polyphemus 160 Abioi, identification of 193–4 Protesilaus 191–2, see also Philostratus, Achaean Wall 44, 124, 193 Heroicus Achilles Proteus 35 arms and armor 203 Scylla 29, 69–70, 72, 73, 74, 75 burial and tomb 190 Tartarus 74–6 Helen in afterlife, resides with 19, 170–1, Thersites 10, 159–60, 170 212–13 tides, Homer’s knowledge of 78–80 horses 203 writing, heroes’ ignorance of 194 Scamander/Xanthus, combat with 29, 129, Horace, Ars Poetica 343-462 160, 203 huponoia 35–7, 44 Aeolus 69–70, 72, 73, 75 Aethra 119–20 Iambulus 142, 150 Agamemnon India, ethnographies of 148–50 naval power 40–1 instruction, as purpose of poetry 56, 64–6, testing of the troops by 124 68–9 Arcadians, naval force 40–1, 194–5 Isocrates, Helen 85–6, 89 Calypso 172 Castor and Pollux 120–1 Juvenal, Satire 15 152–3 Charybdis 78–80 Cimmerians 75 Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 1.11.23–571 Circe 73, 79–80 Leuke (The White Island) 170–1, 195, 198 Crete: 90 (Od. 19.174)or100 (Il. 2.649) cities? lies 55 historical 133–4 Cyclopes 69–70, 75, see also Polyphemus Homeric 95–7 Ethiopians 53–4 Lives of Homer 25, 54–5, 208 fish, heroes’ abstinence from 166 Ps.-Herodotus, Life of Homer 164–5, 166 Hector 125, 127–30 Vita Romana (Achilles’ ghost) 209 Helen Ps.-Longinus, On the Sublime 103–4, 152, 163 age of 187 Lucian and Paris; in Egypt 30–5, 114–15, 119–22, Charon 16 177–8, 190 Dialogues of the Dead 159–60 Heracles’ sack of Troy 120, 187 Homer, general attitude towards 140–1 Iberia, Homer’s knowledge of 75–7 How to Write History 104, 105, 132 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19449-5 - Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature Lawrence Kim Index More information 242 Index Lucian (cont.) Philoctetes, see Homeric characters Lover of Lies (Philopseudes) 144–5, 149–50, 152, Philodemus 158, 200–1 On the Good King according to Homer 6, 8–9 Marine Dialogues 160 On Poems 562 Rooster (Gallus) 187–8, 206–7 Philostratus True Stories (Verae historiae) Heroicus autopsy parodied 144, 147–8 Achilles 212–13; poem on Homer 212–13; Calypso, visit to 171–2 rationalizing criticism of 202–3 Cinyras and Helen 169–70 autopsy 199–202 fictionality in 145–6, 154–5 belief, pistis 199–202 Homer; epigram 172–3; epic poem, new bones, heroic 200 173; Hesiod, contest with 167, 168–9; dialogue form 176 interview with 162–8; origins of 164–7; Dictys and Dares, relation to 180 resonance in the text 142–3 Dio, Trojan Oration, compared to 177–8 lies 144–5, 148–50 fictional play 213–15 myths and the ‘fantastic’ 145, 148–50, 154–5 heroic ghosts, depictions of 195–7 rationalization of Homeric poetry 155 heroic past 197–9 Thanatousia (Games of the Dead) 167, Homer, criticism of 177–8, 190 168–9 Homer’s source 206–11 Thersites’ lawsuit 170 Homeric revision time, on Island of the Blessed 160–2 Odysseus’ ghost 208–11 Zeus, Tragic Actor 150, 159 Phoenician, depiction of 181–5; skeptic, as 185–8 Malalas, John, Chronographica 207 Protesilaus; eyewitness source, as 185–9; Maximus of Tyre, Discourses 5, 6, 10, 80, 195 ghost, as 195–7; Homeric critic, as (Or.
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