Thematic Index of Classics in JStor
homer, homeric, iliad, odyssey, epic, poet, poems, oral, poetry, tradition, parry, poets, poem, similes, traditional, composition, hesiod, formulaic, formula, heroic, poetic, lord, epics, simile, language, oral_poetry, singer, verse, narrative, formulas, song, formulae, performance, diction, scott, kirk, item, oral_tradition, audience, lines, technique, verses, nagy, written, songs, early, epithets, heroes, singers, bard

2004

Performance and the Epic Cycle. Jonathan S. Burgess. Classical Journal. (Oct. - Nov., 2004), pp. 1-23 List themes Full text (1575 theme words)
Feasting in Homeric Epic. Susan Sherratt. Hesperia. (Apr. - Jun., 2004), pp. 301-337 List themes Full text (312 theme words)
On (Mis)interpreting Plato's "Ion". Suzanne Stern-Gillet. Phronesis. (2004), pp. 169-201 List themes Full text (271 theme words)
The "Women's Tradition" in Greek Poetry. Laurel Bowman. Phoenix. (Spring - Summer, 2004), pp. 1-27 List themes Full text (218 theme words)
Untrustworthy Apollo and the Destiny of Achilles: "Iliad" 24.55-63. Jonathan S. Burgess. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 21-40 List themes Full text (159 theme words)
Subject Reviews. Stephen Halliwell, D. E. Hill, Thomas Harrison, Barbara Levick, Nigel Spivey, Richard Gordon, Elinor Keane, Christopher Burnand, Katherine Clarke. Greece & Rome. (Oct., 2004), pp. 252-282 List themes Full text (131 theme words)
Relative Pronouns and Memory: Pindar beyond Syntax. Anna Bonifazi. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 41-68 List themes Full text (126 theme words)
Warfare, History and Literature in the Archaic and Classical Periods: The Development of Greek Military Treatises. José Vela Tejada. Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. (2004), pp. 129-146 List themes Full text (66 theme words)
Who Tried to Kill Nearly Everyone Else but Homer?. James M. Scott. The Classical World. (Summer, 2004), pp. 373-383 List themes Full text (60 theme words)
A Binding Song: The Smiles of Catullus 61. Jonathan L. Ready. Classical Philology. (Apr., 2004), pp. 153-163 List themes Full text (59 theme words)
"Evil Wealth of Raiment": Deadly ΠέΠλοι in Greek Tragedy. Mireille M. Lee. Classical Journal. (Feb. - Mar., 2004), pp. 253-279 List themes Full text (44 theme words)
Nisus and Euryalus: Exploiting the Contradictions in Virgil's "Doloneia". Sergio Casali. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 319-354 List themes Full text (42 theme words)
An Ox-Fronted River-God Sophocles, "Trachiniae" 12-13. Michael Clarke. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 97-112 List themes Full text (36 theme words)
Subject Reviews. Stephen Halliwell, Donald Hill, Thomas Harrison, Barbara Levick, Nigel Spivey, George Boys-Stones, Christopher Burnand, Katherine Clarke. Greece & Rome. (Apr., 2004), pp. 108-137 List themes Full text (33 theme words)
Religious Syncretism: The New Gods of Greek Tragedy. William Allan. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 113-155 List themes Full text (29 theme words)
Asclepius and the Legacy of Thessaly. Emma Aston. Classical Quarterly. (May, 2004), pp. 18-32 List themes Full text (29 theme words)
"Some God... or His Own Heart": Two Kinds of Epic Motivation in the Proem to Ovid's "Metamorphoses". James J. O'Hara. Classical Journal. (Dec., 2004 - Jan., 2005), pp. 149-161 List themes Full text (26 theme words)
Marriage, Identity, and the Tale of Mestra in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand. American Journal of Philology. (Autumn, 2004), pp. 303-338 List themes Full text (24 theme words)
Hethiter, Homer und Anatolien: Erwägungen zu Il. 3, 300f. und KUB XIII Nr. 3, III 1f.. Robert Rollinger. Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. (2004), pp. 1-21 List themes Full text (24 theme words)
Lucretius' Progressive Revelation of Nature in "DRN" 1.149-502. Daniel Solomon. Phoenix. (Autumn - Winter, 2004), pp. 260-283 List themes Full text (23 theme words)
Hesiod, "Works and Days": A Didaxis of Deconstruction?. Gideon Nisbet. Greece & Rome. (Oct., 2004), pp. 147-163 List themes Full text (21 theme words)
Courage in the Democratic Polis. Ryan Balot. Classical Quarterly. (Dec., 2004), pp. 406-423 List themes Full text (19 theme words)
The Mycenaean Feast: An Introduction. James C. Wright. Hesperia. (Apr. - Jun., 2004), pp. 121-132 List themes Full text (16 theme words)
KEINOΣ in Pindar: Between Grammar and Poetic Intention. Anna Bonifazi. Classical Philology. (Oct., 2004), pp. 283-299 List themes Full text (16 theme words)
"Ut non [forma] cygnorum, sic albis proxima cygnis": Poetology, Epic Definition, and Swan Imagery in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sophia Papaioannou. Phoenix. (Spring - Summer, 2004), pp. 49-61 List themes Full text (16 theme words)
Frölich's Table of Homeric Wounds. K. B. Saunders. Classical Quarterly. (May, 2004), pp. 1-17 List themes Full text (15 theme words)
A Legacy from the Library of the Lyceum? Inquiry into the Joint Transmission of Theophrastus' and Aristotle's "Metaphysics" Based on Evidence Provided by Manuscripts E and J. Myriam Hecquet-Devienne. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 171-189 List themes Full text (15 theme words)
Virgil "Bucolics" 1.1-2 and Interpretive Tradition: A Latin (Roman) Program for a Greek Genre. John B. Van Sickle. Classical Philology. (Oct., 2004), pp. 336-353 List themes Full text (15 theme words)
Nocturnal Writers in Imperial Rome: The Culture of "Lucubratio". James Ker. Classical Philology. (Jul., 2004), pp. 209-242 List themes Full text (14 theme words)
Virtue in Plato's "Symposium". F. C. White. Classical Quarterly. (Dec., 2004), pp. 366-378 List themes Full text (14 theme words)
Zur Chronologie der bücher VI und VII der "Variae" von Cassiodor. Jan Prostko-Prostynski. Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. (2004), pp. 503-508 List themes Full text (13 theme words)
The Alkmene Hydrias and Vase Painting in Late-Sixth-Century Athens. Ann Steiner. Hesperia. (Jul. - Sep., 2004), pp. 427-463 List themes Full text (13 theme words)
Catullan Excavations: Pindar's "Olympian" 10 and Catullus 68. Deborah Steiner. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 275-297 List themes Full text (12 theme words)
Auferte oculos: Modes of Spectatorship in Statius Thebaid 11. Neil W. Bernstein. Phoenix. (Spring - Summer, 2004), pp. 62-85 List themes Full text (12 theme words)
Authorial Voice and Theatrical Self-Definition in Terence and beyond: The "Hecyra" Prologues in Ancient and Modern Contexts. Ismene Lada-Richards. Greece & Rome. (Apr., 2004), pp. 55-82 List themes Full text (11 theme words)
A Pun in Antiphanes (fr. 225 K-A = Ath. 60C-D). Matthew Leigh. Classical Quarterly. (May, 2004), pp. 278-283 List themes Full text (10 theme words)
The Correspondence of Gilbert Highet and Cyril Bailey. Robert J. Ball. The Classical World. (Autumn, 2004), pp. 30-60 List themes Full text (9 theme words)
Aegean Feasting: A Minoan Perspective. Elisabetta Borgna. Hesperia. (Apr. - Jun., 2004), pp. 247-279 List themes Full text (9 theme words)
A Survey of Evidence for Feasting in Mycenaean Society. James C. Wright. Hesperia. (Apr. - Jun., 2004), pp. 133-178 List themes Full text (8 theme words)
Readers in the Underworld: Lucretius, de Rerum Natura 3.912-1075. Tobias Reinhardt. Journal of Roman Studies. (2004), pp. 27-46 List themes Full text (8 theme words)
Navigating Genres: Martial 7.19 and the "Argonautica" of Valerius Flaccus. Andrew Zissos. Classical Journal. (Apr. - May, 2004), pp. 405-422 List themes Full text (7 theme words)
Insult and Oral Excess in the Disputes between Aeschines and Demosthenes. Nancy Worman. American Journal of Philology. (Spring, 2004), pp. 1-25 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
Julian's Bull Coinage: Kent Revisited. Shaun Tougher. Classical Quarterly. (May, 2004), pp. 327-330 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
"I Could Not Love Caesar More": Roman Friendship and the Beginning of the Principate. Sandra Citroni Marchetti. Classical Journal. (Feb. - Mar., 2004), pp. 281-299 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
Pindar's "Olympian" 11 Revisited Post Bundy. W. H. Race. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. (2004), pp. 69-96 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
Non Oculis Sed Auribus: The Ancient Schoolroom and Learning to Hear the Latin Hexameter. Andrew S. Becker. Classical Journal. (Feb. - Mar., 2004), pp. 313-322 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
Sula: Reprisal by Seizure in Greek Inter-Community Relations. Andrew Lintott. Classical Quarterly. (Dec., 2004), pp. 340-353 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
Definitions and Paradigms: Laches' First Definition. Øyvind Rabbås. Phronesis. (2004), pp. 143-168 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
The Identity of the Goddess in Alcman's Louvre "Partheneion" (PMG 1). Monica Silveira Cyrino. Classical Journal. (Oct. - Nov., 2004), pp. 25-38 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
The Composition and Circulation of Cicero's "In Verrem". Thomas D. Frazel. Classical Quarterly. (May, 2004), pp. 128-142 List themes Full text (5 theme words)