Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer : : Appellatives, Periphrastic Denominations, and Noun-Epithet Formulas / / Lowell Edmunds.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Edmunds, Lowell,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 87
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 170 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. Appellatives and Periphrastic Denominations -- 2. Epithets of Opprobrium -- 3. Ἀργείη -- 4. The Name Helen Unmodified -- 5. δῖα γυναικῶν “noble among women”: The Public Figure (1) -- 6. τανύπεπλος “long-robed”: The Public Figure (2) -- 7. Other Epithets for Beauty (1): ἠΰκομος -- 8. Other Epithets for Beauty (2): λευκώλενος -- 9. Epithets for Beauty (3): καλλίκομος, καλλιπάρῃος -- 10. Kinship Epithets -- 11. εὐπατέρεια -- 12. Reflections on Kinship Epithets and Epithets of Beauty -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Helen’s Epithets in Homer in Order of Occurrence -- Appendix 2: The Name Helen without Epithets -- Appendix 3: The “On account of” Motif -- Appendix 4: Helen’s epithets in lyric -- Works Cited -- Index nominum et rerum -- Index locorum