Celebrating Homer's Landscapes: Troy and Ithaca RevisitedIn this text, an authority on Homeric texts takes us on a tour of the main localities that Homer paints in his Iliad and Odyssey. Providing numerous photographs of the terrain and quoting liberally from the two epics, J.V. Luce argues that Homer's descriptions of the ancient landscape, far from being poetic fantasies, are accurate in every detail. Luce surveys what Homer tells us about the environs of Troy and Ithaca, applying the developing science of narratology to Homeric depiction of landscape. He also incorporates information about Troy that has been obtained in the past two decades, in particular geophysical information about the alluviation of the Trojan plain and archaeological data about Troy that reveals that the fortified area of the city was ten times as large as previously supposed. Tracing the ebb and flow of the battle as described in the Iliad, Luce shows how Homer's account is consistent with this picture of the plain. |
Contents
two The Troad | 21 |
three The Plain of Troy and the Rivers | 57 |
four Troy Homer and the Archaeologists | 81 |
five Signposts to the Course of the Fighting III | 111 |
Geography and Archaeology | 165 |
Narrative and Locality | 191 |
Appendixes | 231 |
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Common terms and phrases
Achaean Achilles Aegean Aetos Agamemnon ancient Apollo archaeological Asteris Athena Ballı Dağ Batieia Beşika Bay Cambridge Commentary Cape cave century B.C. chariot Chrysa citadel wall close coast detail ditch Dörpfeld Doulichion envisaged epic epithet Eumaios excavation feet flank Greek camp harbour Hector Hellenistic Hellespont Herakles Hisarlik Homer says Iliad Ilion Ilios island Itháki Kallikolonê Kayan Kephalonia Kesik Tepe Korfmann landscape Late Bronze Age Lefkas lower town mentioned Merovigli miles modern mound Mount mountain Mycenae Mycenaean narrative Neriton Nymphs Odysseus palace passage Pergamos Phorcys Pilikata Pınarbaşı plain of Troy Polis Bay Poseidon Priam Priam's Raven's Crag river route Scaean Gate Scamander Schliemann ship station shoreline Sigeum Sigeum Ridge Simoeis slopes springs Strabo summit Telemachos tion tomb topographical tradition trees Troad Troia Trojan plain Trojan War Troy VIIa tumulus walls of Troy Yassi Tepe Zakynthos Zeus