Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer: Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-epithet Formulas (Trends in Classics - Supplementary ... in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 87)

Trends in Classics , a series and journal edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, publishes innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity. The series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it provides an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies. The journal Trends in Classics is published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue is devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor. Trends in Classics , a series and journal edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, publishes innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity. The series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it provides an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies. The journal is published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue is devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor. This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. Her epithets, most of them referring to her beauty or her kinship with Zeus and coming mainly from the narrator, make her the counterpart of the heroes. Frontmatter 1 Preface 5 Contents 7 Abbreviations 11 List of Tables 13 Introduction 15 1. Appellatives and Periphrastic Denominations 29 2. Epithets of Opprobrium 40 3. Ἀργείη 54 4. The Name Helen Unmodified 66 5. δῖα γυναικῶν noble among women The Public Figure (1) 79 6. τανύπεπλος “long-robed”: The Public Figure (2) 87 7. Other Epithets for Beauty (1): ἠΰκομος 95 8. Other Epithets for Beauty (2): λευκώλενος 107 9. Epithets for Beauty (3): καλλίκομος, καλλιπάρῃος 117 10. Kinship Epithets 128 11. εὐπατέρεια 139 12. Reflections on Kinship Epithets and Epithets of Beauty 148 13. Conclusion 160 Appendix 1. Helens Epithets in Homer in Order of Occurrence 165 Appendix 2. The Name Helen without Epithets 167 Appendix 3. The On account of Motif 169 Appendix 4. Helens epithets in lyric 171 Works Cited 173 Index nominum et rerum 185 Index locorum 187 This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the __Iliad__ and the __Odyssey__ and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. Her epithets, most of them referring to her beauty or her kinship with Zeus and coming mainly from the narrator, make her the counterpart of the heroes.