The Homeric Narrator |
Common terms and phrases
Achaians Achilleus Achilleus's action Agamemnon analysis apostrophe appositive summary arrival Athena audience battle Catalogue of Ships chapter character's characters Chatman commentary death Demodokos describe descriptive pause detail Diomedes direct speech discourse discussion divine epic Eumaios example explanation fate fictional French Lieutenant's Woman Genette give goddess gods Greeks Hektor Hermes hero Hobbit Homeric narrator Homeric poems Iliad implied indirect instances interpretation intradiegetic introduction iterative summary Jong judgment Kalypso's knowledge Kyklopes Leukothea lines Menelaos metalepsis mind Muses narrative narrator's Nestor Odysseus Odysseus's Olympos oral overt paralipsis passages Patroklos Phaiakians plot poet Poseidon present proem reader scene ships simile song speak statements story structure suitors tale Telemachos tell tion told tradition Tristram Tristram Shandy Trojans verb vision words Zeus ἀλλ ἀνδρῶν ἄρ ἄρα αὐτὰρ γὰρ δὲ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ μὲν μιν μοι οἱ οὐ οὐδ οὐδὲ περ τε καὶ τὸν Ὣς