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Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
Acknowledgments
Foreword to the 1999 Second Edition
Introduction. A Word on Assumptions, Methods, Results
Part I. Demodokos, Odyssey, Iliad
1. The First Song of Demodokos 2. The Best of the Achaeans 3. A Conflict between Odysseus and Achilles in the Iliad 4. The Death of Achilles and a Festival at Delphi Part II. Hero of Epic, Hero of Cult
5. The Name of Achilles 6. Lamentation and the Hero 7. The Death of Pyrrhos 8. The Death of Hektor 9. Poetic Categories for the Hero 10. Poetic Visions of Immortality for the Hero Part III. Praise, Blame, and the Hero
11. On Strife and the Human Condition 12. Poetry of Praise, Poetry of Blame 13. Iambos 14. Epos, the Language of Blame, and the Worst of the Achaeans 15. The Best of the Achaeans Confronts an Aeneid Tradition Part IV. Beyond Epic
16. The Death of a Poet 17. On the Antagonism of God and Hero 18. On the Stories of a Poet's Life 19. More on Strife and the Human Condition 20. Achilles beyond the Iliad Appendix. On the Forms Krataió– and Akhaió– Bibliography
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