Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
1.1 The "Disastrous Request" (XV. 597): Zeus and Thetis 9
1.2 Divine Farce 21
Chapter 2
2.1 Zeus pities his son Sarpedon 32
2.2 Hector's Deadly Destiny 41
2.3 Zeus' Conspiracy 68
2.4 The Poetic Voice and Mythical Narrative: The Epic Paradox 77
Chapter 3
3.1 The End of the Wrath: The Beginning of the End 83
3.2 The Fatal Breaking of the Pairing 91
3.3 Zeus' and Apollo's Conspiracy against Patroclos 103
3.4 Doubles Voices 118
Chapter 4
4.1 Achilles' Destiny and Zeus 124
4.2 Zeus and Achilles' immortal horses 134
4.3 The Ruinous Madness of Atê 138
4.4 The Odysseys' Reaction to the lliadic Zeus 147
Chapter 5
5.1 Zeus challenges the Divine Assembly 153
5.2 The Breaking of Zeus' Ban 161
5.3 Sex without Love 171
5.4 Zeus Restores the Order of Things: The Credentials of Monarchic Power 190
Chapter 6
6.1 A Perverse Comedy 201
6.2 The Breaking of the Truce 222
6.3 Zeus Closes the Poem 231
6.4 Closing Remarks 249
Appendix 1 οιος 'Αχιλλευς The Notion of Divine as Applied to the Heroes 259
Appendix 2 The Muses and the Poet 265
Bibliography 269
Index of Rhetorical and Critical Notions 277
Index Locorum 281
