Homer from Z to A

Claire Le Feuvre is Professor of Greek and Indo-European Linguistics at the Sorbonne University of Paris. As an Indo-Europeanist, she specialised in Slavic linguistics (Ph.D. on Old Novgorodian, 1998) and Ancient Greek (Habilitation on Homer, 2009). She previously published a book on the reanalysis and reinterpretation of Homeric words in Greek (Ὅμηρος δύσγνωστος. Réinterprétations de termes homériques à date archaïque et classique. Geneva, Droz. 2015) as well as several articles in English and in French.

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Introduction

 1 Homeric Scholarship and Zenodotus’ Status

 2 Corpus



1 Zenodotus’ Text: An Overview

 1 Types of Variant Readings

 2 Linguistic Evidence for Zenodotus’ Text

 3 Criteria of Discussion of Variant Readings

 4 Old Forms in new clothes

 5 Should a Zenodotean Older Reading Be Printed in a Modern Edition?

 6 Zenodotus and Historical Linguistics



2 Sitting on an Old Tree

 1 Γ 151–152: The Metrical Problem

 2 Zenodotus’ Reading

 3 Dialectal Trees

 4 The Athematic Forms of δένδρεον

 5 “Tree” and Its Proto-Indo-European Root

 6 Back to Zenodotus

 7 Δενδρήεις



3 “Demain dès l’aube” (Tomorrow at Dawn)

 1 Θ 470: The Metrical Problem

 2 Θ 470: The Syntactic Problem

 3 Zenodotus’ Reading

 4 Aeolic αὔα/αὖα

 5 Proto-Indo-European Inflection of “Dawn”

 6 Boeotian ἀϝές, Zenodotus’ ἄϝας and Sappho’s *αὔα

 7 Ἄας δὴ and ἠοῦς δὴ

 8 Θ 525

 9 Chronology and Phonetic Evolution

 10 Achaean Type τελήεις



4 Stretching Arms

 1 Α 351

 2 A Linguistic Fossil

 3 Yet Another Fossil



5 Matters of Perception

 1 Ξ 37–38: The Hapax ὀψείοντες

 2 Zenodotus’ Reading

 3 Adverbs and Preverbs

 4 μ 438–439

 5 Elimination of ὄψ

 6 From Zenodotus’ Reading to the Vulgate



6 Cloaks and Coats

 1 Ἔρυμα/ἔλυμα Δ 137

 2 Νυκτὶ ἐλυσθείς Α 47

 3 ϝελυσθείς and ἐλυσθείς

 4 ἐλύσθη

 5 A New Picture

 6 Hesiod’s ἔλῡμα



7 Straight Shaft and Straight Flight

 1 The hapax ἰθυπτῑ́ων

 2 Κυλλοποδίων

 3 Zenodotus’ Reading

 4 Reconstruction and Etymology

 5 The Vulgate’s Reading



8 Hollow Lacedaemon, Its Reeds, Its Crevices …

 1 Achaean κηώεις?

 2 Κοίλην Λακεδαίμονα κητώεσσαν # Β 581

 3 What Was Zenodotus’ Spelling?

 4 Καιτάεσσαν in Its Context

 5 Reanalysis and Secondary Use

 6 Remotivating the New Form



9 Reeds Again

 1 Σ 576: The Vulgate’s Reading

 2 Zenodotus’ Reading

 3 The Preposition and the Status of κελάδων



10 Homer the Master of Rhetorics

 1 Β 681

 2 Α 60

 3 Ζ 70–71

 4 Λ 458

 5 Γ 210–211

 6 O 190–191



Synthesis



Conclusion



Appendix: The Corpus

Bibliography

Index Verborum

Index Locorum

Index Grammaticorum