Homer's Cosmic Fabrication : Choice and Design in the Iliad

Introduction: Reading, Choice, and Design
Part I: Dramatic Legibility and Poetic Design
1. Persons, Problems, and Choices: The Progression of Events in the Iliad
2. Event Trajectories in the "Books" of the Iliad
3. The Iliad: An Epic in Three Cycles
4. Paths of Thought: Iliad Cycle I
Part II: Reading Thematic Trajectories
5. Replacements and Representatives: The Quarrel (Cycle I, Column A) and the Embassy (Cycle II, Column A)
6. Zeus's Changing Plans: Cycles I and II, Column Z (Books 8 and 15)
7. Homeric Sublimity: Iliad Book 24
Conclusion: The Fabricated Cosmos and the Poetry of the Future

Keywords: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval LCO003000