Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
Notes
References
Part One The First Sophistic
1 Between Homer and Gorgias: Helen's Bewitching Power
Introduction
Helen in Homer: weaver, singer, charmer
Helen in Gorgias: a Sophistic heroine
Conclusion
Notes
References
2 Palamedes, The Sophistic Hero
Introduction
Archaic and Classical traditions on Palamedes
Gorgias' Apology of Palamedes
Alcidamas' Odysseus or On the Treachery of Palamedes
Conclusion
Notes
References

3 Ajax versus Odysseus
Introduction
The next-best of the Achaeans
Odysseus and Ajax in the Greek imagination
The speeches: Ajax
The speeches: Odysseus
Harnessing Homer
Odysseus' speech: Conclusion
Notes
References
4 Mythological Role-Playing among the Sophists
Introduction
Nestor
Palamedes
Adrastus
Prometheus
Coda: The Second Sophistic
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part Two The Second Sophistic
5 Homeric Exegesis and Athetesis in Lucian's Versions of the Judgement of Paris
Notes
References

6 Helen Was Never Abducted, Paris Abducted Her Because He Was Bored: Two Ways of Rewriting Homer in Dio Chrysostom (Orr. 11 and 20)
Idleness and kingship: why Homer is the one and only poet for leaders
Manipulation of Epos in the Second Sophistic: techniques and intents
The Judgement of Paris and the Abduction of Helen in the ancient texts
The Judgement of Paris and the Abduction of Helen in or. 11 (Trojan )
The Judgement of Paris and the Abduction of Helen in or. 20 On the Subject of Anachoretic Life
Conclusion
Notes
References

7 Homer's Lies and Dio's Truth? Subverting the Epic Past in Dio Chrysostom's Trojan Oration
Introduction
Dio's Trojan oration: a brief summary
Homer's lies and Dio's truth
Homer the bad storyteller
Interpretations in scholarship so far
Trust no one: framing Homer, framing Dio
Conclusion
Notes
References
8 A Rhetorical Trojan War: Philostratus' Heroicus, the Power of Language and the Construction of the Truth1
What kind of truth?
How to contest the Mysian tradition
'Helen was not in Troy': from historiography to sophistic

The fiction of the Scamander: from sophistic to historiography
A plausible Trojan War amongst other rhetorical possibilities
Notes
References
9 Reading Homer and the Epic Cycle through Ekphrasis: Philostratus' Epic Imagines1
Philostratus' textual references
Philostratus' audiences
Introducing Homeric authority: Imagines 1.1
Homer and the Epic Cycle: Imagines 2.7
The Epic Cycle and visual culture: Imagines 1.7
Homer, the Epic Cycle and the independence of painting
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index