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5 - Invoking Homer

The Catalogue of Ships and the Early Reception of the Iliad

from Part II - Lyric and Epic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Adrian Kelly
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Henry Spelman
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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This chapter argues for and interprets allusions to the invocation before the Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.484-93) in Ibycus’ ’Polycrates Ode’, Pindar’s Paean 6 and Paean 7b, and Simonides’ ’Plataea Elegy’. It then considers these four poems together as a unique case study for the early reception of Homer. For no other passage from the Iliad or the Odyssey can we trace an equally extensive afterlife in early Greek lyric. The author argues that the unusual prominence of the narrator’s personality and the exceptionally emphatic claim to objective truth in Il. 2.484–93 made these lines a privileged point of reference for subsequent explorations of the nature of poetic authority.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • Invoking Homer
  • Edited by Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford, Henry Spelman, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
  • Online publication: 14 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878968.008
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  • Edited by Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford, Henry Spelman, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
  • Online publication: 14 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878968.008
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  • Invoking Homer
  • Edited by Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford, Henry Spelman, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
  • Online publication: 14 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108878968.008
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