Menelaus in the Archaic Period

Introduction: Methods and Terms
The 'Homeric Question'
Orality, Traditional Referentiality, and Neoanalysis
Homeric Intertextuality and Methodologies of Allusion
Theories of Homeric Character Depiction
Overview of Part I: Homer
Overview of Part II: Votaries, Painters, and Poets
Part I. Homer
1: The Iliad
The Language of Menelaus
The Story of Menelaus
2: The Odyssey
Introduction: Menelaus Returned Home
Pylos
Sparta
Proteus and the Apotheosis of Menelaus
The Departure of Telemachus
Envoi
Part II. Votaries, Painters, and Poets
3: Why Menelaus? Alcman, Sappho, Stesichorus, [Hesiod], and the Cycle
Alcman
'Cyclic' Epic Fragments: Cypria
Little Iliad; Ilioupersis
Nostoi
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Sappho frr. 16 17
Stesichorus: Helen, Palinode, Ilioupersis, Nostoi
Conclusion
4: Menelaus in Archaic Art
Introduction: Heroic Narrative in Archaic Art
Menelaus and Helen
Menelaus without Helen
Naming Menelaus a Hero in Archaic Art
5: The Cult of Menelaus and Helen at Therapne
Introduction
Literary Testimonia to the Cult of Menelaus
Material Evidence for the Cult of Menelaus and Helen at Therapne
Inscriptions and the Cult of Menelaus
6: Menelaus *E*u*r*u*b*i*h*4: Simonides and the End of the Story
Simonides' 'Plataea Elegy'
Conclusion: The End of the Story
Endmatter
Appendix: Menelaus Genealogy

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• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• História da arte: arte antiga e clássica, BCE a c 500 CE
• Arqueologia clássica grega e romana