Thematic analysis of the Iliad
Critical views on the Iliad. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on ekphrasis and Helen of Troy ; John Ruskin on the gods ; Milman Parry on the epithet ; C. M. Bowra on Homer as poet of a post-heroic age ; Bruno Snell on Homeric man ; Adam Parry on heroic language and the wrath of Achilleus ; Dieter Lohmann on ring composition and the chariot race ; James M. Redfield on dogs in the Iliad ; Jasper Griffin on the gods as audience ; Oliver Taplin on the shield of Achilleus ; Ruth Scodel on Homer's use of myth ; Martin Mueller on the simile ; Laura M. Slatkin on Thetis
Thematic analysis of the Odyssey
Critical views on the Odyssey. Samuel Butler on the authority of women ; Erich Auerbach on Homer's perspective ; W. B. Stanford on the ambiguity of the Odysseus figure ; William S. Anderson on utopias and oblivion ; Cedric H. Whitman on Greek art and description in the Iliad and Odyssey ; Anne Amory on the psychology of Odysseus and Penelope ; Hugh Lloyd-Jones on the Odyssey as moral fable ; Bernard Fenik on Zeus' justice and Poseidon's revenge ; Norman Austin on landscapes of order and disorder ; Paolo Vivante on the poetics of time ; Rainer Friedrich on lion similes in the Iliad and Odyssey ; John Peradotto on no-man and everyman ; Andrew Ford on poetry and belatedness.
