Introduction / Jonathan L. Ready and Christos C. Tsagalis
pt. 1. Rhapsodes
Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the archaic and classical periods / Christos C. Tsagalis
Reading rhapsodes on Athenian vases / Sheramy D. Bundrick
Performance contexts for rhapsodic recitals in the Hellenistic period / Christos C. Tsagalis
Rhapsodes and rhapsodic contests in the imperial period / Anne Gangloff
Formed on the festival stage : plot and characterization in the iliad as a competitive collaborative process / Mary R. Bachvarova
Did Sappho and Homer ever meet? comparative perspectives on homeric singers / Olga Levaniouk
pt. 2. Narrators and characters
Odysseus polyonymous / Deborah Beck
Embedded focalization and free indirect speech in Homer as viewpoint blending / Anna Bonifazi
Speech training and the mastery of context : Thoas the Aetolian and the practice of muthoi / Joel P. Christensen
Diomedes as audience and speaker in the Iliad / James O'Maley
Hektor, the marginal hero : performance theory and the Homeric monologue / Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr
Performance, oral texts, and entextualization in Homeric epic / Jonathan L. Ready
Homer's rivals? internal narrators in the Iliad / Adrian Kelly.