Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Compensation and Heroic Identity -- 1 Ransom and Revenge -- THE POETICS OF COMPENSATION IN THE ILIAD -- Verbal Repetitions -- Verbal Repetition in Themes of the Apoina Type -- Verbal Repetition in Themes of the Poine Type -- The Semantics of Exchange and Sale -- Path in Compensatory Exchange -- Compensation and Supplication -- Roles in Compensatory Exchange -- Success and Failure of Material Compensation -- THE POLITICS OF COMPENSATION IN HOMERIC SOCIETY -- 2 Agamemnon and Chryses -- AGAMEMNON AND CHRYSES: APOINA -- AGAMEMNON AND CHRYSES: POINE -- AGAMEMNON AND THE ACHAIANS: REDEFINING -- 3 The Quarrel -- THE QUARREL: COMPENSATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DOMINANCE -- INTERMEZZO: ACHILLEUS AND ATHENE -- ACHILLEUS' POINE THEME -- ACHILLEUS, THETIS, AND ZEUS: THE PRIMEVAL THEME -- 4 The Embassy to Achilleus -- THE DEBACLE -- AGAMEMNON'S UNLIMITED APOINA -- THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLEUS -- Odysseus and Achilleus -- Phoinix and Achilleus -- Aias and Achilleus -- 5 Achilleus and Priam -- FROM THE EMBASSY TO THE ASSEMBLY -- AGAMEMNON'S UNLIMITED APOINA -- HEKTOR'S OFFER OF APOINA -- THE FUNERAL GAMES FOR PATROKLOS -- PRIAM'S OFFER OF APOINA -- 6 Unlimited Poine -- APPENDIX 1 Catalog of Compensation Themes -- THEMES OF THE APOINA TYPE -- THEMES OF THE POINE TYPE -- THEMES OF A MIXED TYPE -- EXCURSUS -- APPENDIX 2 Arrangement of Compensation Themes -- COMPENSATION THEMES IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY APPEAR IN THE ILIAD -- COMPENSATION THEMES ARRANGED BY NARRATIVE SITUATION -- Notes -- Introduction: Compensation and Heroic Identity -- Chapter 1. Ransom and Revenge: Poetics and Politics of Compensation -- Chapter 2. Agamemnon and Chryses: Between King and Father -- Chapter 3. The Quarrel: Men Who Would Be King.

Chapter 4. The Embassy to Achilleus: In the Name of the Father -- Chapter 5. Achilleus and Priam: Between King and Father -- Chapter 6. Unlimited Poine: Poetry as Practice -- Appendix 1: Catalog of Compensation Themes -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index of Homeric Passages -- Line numbers are given in boldface type. -- Iliad -- Odyssey -- General Index.