Brann Eva 
Homeric Moments 

Preface xiii 

Accounting for the title 3 

1 The Gods 35 

2 Odysseus: his looks and - transformations 46 

3 Odysseus: his nature 51 

4 Heroes 58 

5 Odysseus at troy 60 

6 Ajax the silent 70 

7 Brief Achilles and enduring Odysseus 75 

8 Hephaestus' world: the shield 79 

9 Patroclus the friend 88 

10 Achilles the unwitting liar 90 

11 Hector the holder 95 

12 The plan of Zeus 98

13 Achilles as Hades and Achilles in Hades 100 

14 Beginnings and endings 107 

15 The returns 115 

16 The poet of the Odyssey 118 

17 Naivete and insight 122 

18 Beauty and craft 124 

19 Visibilityand visuality 128 

20 Simile: the double vision 134 

21 Name tags and speaking names 141 

22 Telemachus and his telemachy 145 

23 Nestor at home 150 

24 Helen at Troy and Helen at home 154 

25 The stations and sightings of Odysseus' odyssey 168 

26 Asleep on the watch 171 

27 The poet of the Odyssey 174 

28 The fame of men and women 178 

29 Odysseus'odyssey l: first through sixth adventure 182 

30 Odysseus in Hades: seventh adventure 197 

31 The wooers in Hades 201 

32 The treasure house of the Greeks 204 

33 Odysseus' odyssey ii: eighth through tenth adventure 208 

34 Calypso who conceals: eleventh adventure 215 

35 Phaeacia the artists' colony: twelfth adventure 219 

36 The locales and settings of homer's odyssey 227 

37 The liar's goddess 230 

38 The Cretan liar 237 

39 Lying tales versus fairy tales 247 

40 Telemachus returns 250 

41 Odysseus and Telemachus: convergence 255 

42 Penelope the kingly queen 257 

43 Suitors and servants 264 

44 Crisis 270 

45 At first sight 274 

46 Testing 285 

47 Time chasms 292 

48 Twice told, thrice dead 299 

Pigture credits 304 

References 305