THE AGES OF Edited by Jane B. Carter and Sarah P. Morris Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/agesofhomertribuOOjane THE AGES OF HOMER THE AGES OF HOMER A TRIBUTE TO EMILY TOWNSEND VERMEULE Edited by Jane B. Carter and Sarah P. Morris UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS AUSTIN Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press Frontispiece no. 1: Chalcidian Amphora by the Inscription All rights reserved Painter, on loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum (L. 88. Printed in the United States of America AE.56). Side B: Odysseus kills a sleeping Thracian. On the First paperback printing, 1998 shoulder, three mounted youths gallop to the right. (Photograph courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum.) Requests for permission to reproduce materia! from this work should be sent to Frontispiece no. 2: Side B/A of Chalcidian Amphora: team Permissions, University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, of Thracian horses. (Photograph courtesy of the J. Paul TX 78713-7819. Getty Museum.) © The paper used in this publication meets the minimum Lines from “Bitter Lemons” by Lawrence Durrell requirements of American National Standard for reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd., London on Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed behalf of the Estate of Lawrence Durrell. Copyright © i960 Library Materials, ansi Z39.48-1984. by Lawrence Durrell. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Ages of Homer : a tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule / edited by Jane B. Carter and Sarah P. Morris.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-292-71169-7 (cl.: alk. paper) ISBN 0-292-71208-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Homer—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Epic poetry, Greek—History and criticism. 3. Homer— Contemporary Greece. 4. Civilization, Homeric. I. Carter, Jane Burr, date. II. Morris, Sarah P, date. III. Vermeule, Emily. PA4037.A59 1995 883'.oi—DC20 94-13817 AIMIAIAI TLfir)<; evexa H 0117 AIMIAIH ttot oitt’ eaxanf]<; -moXieSpov (ttjp xai peppevXew Ovr)Tol xaXeovcri Sapapra) 'EAAddo? apxaii?? r\ r acrrea xai poop eypw MatovtSea) r errewv r)p eppppeinpia ipcop, xXeivd yap epexaXvipe redappepa dtbpara yaips xai ypatpO' ppdxiiP rpriaraTO ar\pxxr 'Kxaiwv. rr]P pvp aebSe, Oea, ao<pir]P yap e Trap lop alpeip. UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT (Hesiod Eoiae?-vel simile) COURTESY OF FRANK STUBBINGS V »• RESILIENCE When it became apparent to the long-wandering Ithacan, weary and morose, far from home, that Euryalos’ snide sneer— “you don’t look like an athlete” — was aimed at the very soul of his being, his first impulse was to doubt himself, to doubt he still possessed the necessary strength to shine among the curious Phaeacians. His arm seemed too unpractised, his will worn too thin by the consuming sea to lift the discus, let alone attempt to throw it. But then, remembering the rousing words of Peleus, “To be the best and excel over others,” he sensed the fiery old determination coursing through his tawny limbs, and he grabbed the biggest discus and hurled it way beyond the rest. JODY MAXMIN vii