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Introduction /Jonathan Price and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz --Part I.A. Epic: Text.Homer's innocent Aeneas and traditions of the Troad /Ruth Scodel --Formulaic diction and contextual relevance : notes on the meaning of formulaic epithets in Iliad 1 /Seth L. Schein --Babies in the Iliad Book 6 : Astyanax and Dionysus /Maureen Alden --Reading emotional intelligence : Antilochus and Achilles in the Iliad /Elizabeth Minchin --Two mothers : Eos and Thetis in the Aithiopis /Deborah Gera --Seeing the unseen in the Iliad /Hayden Pelliccia --B. Epic: Intertext.The melody of Homeric performance /C. W. Marshall --Helen of Troy-or of Lacedaemon? The Trojan War and royal succession in the Aegean Bronze Age /Richard Janko --Substitute, sacrifice and sidekick : a note on the comparative method and Homer /Ian Rutherford --The birth of literary criticism (Herodotus 2.116-17) and the roots of Homeric neoanalysis /Bruno Currie --Iopas, Vergil's Phoenician Bard (on Aeneid 1.740-747) /Andrea Rotstein --Homer between Celsus, Origen and the Jews of late antique Palaestina /Maren R. Niehoff --Unreportable tokens, speech representation and conventions of textual composition /Donna Shalev --Part II. A. Drama: Text.Boughs and daggers : reading "hand" in Aeschylus' Suppliant Women and the Danaid Trilogy /Christos C. Tsagalis --Episodic tragedy, Antigone, and indeterminacy at the end of Euripides' Phoenissae /Thomas Hubbard --Dramatic contexts and literary fiction in Euripides, Heracles 1340-46 /Justina Gregory --Fictions of space from Old to New Comedy /Niall W. Slater --B. Drama: Intertext.The Sphinx : A Greco-Phoenician hybrid /Carolina Lopez-Ruiz --Inviting Socrates : the prologues of Republic and the two Symposia /Gabriel Danzig. "This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to Celsus, the studies here were all written by friends and colleagues of Margalit Finkelberg who are experts in their particular fields, and who have all been influenced by her work. The papers offer close readings of individual lines and discussion of widespread cultural phenomena. Readers will encounter Hittite precedents to the Homeric poems, characters in ancient epic analysed by modern cognitive theory, the use of Homer in Christian polemic, tragic themes of love and murder, a history of the Sphinx, and more. Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of fascinating essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors, and will be of interest to anyone working on Greek literature"--
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