Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introductory notes -- 1.1 Major and minor heroes (and heroines) -- 1.2 Names and history -- 1.3 Etymology and philosophy -- 1.3.1 Etymology -- 1.3.2 Philosophy of names -- 1.4 Names, society, orality and literacy -- 1.5 How to tell a 'speaking' name in Homer -- 1.5.1 Notes to the reader -- 2. Names from the Iliad -- 2.1 The Warrior Heroes -- 2.1.1 Achilles -- 2.1.2 Aias -- 2.1.3 Agamemnon, Menelaos -- 2.1.4 Diomedes -- 2.1.5 Idomeneus and Meriones -- 2.1.6 Patroklos -- 2.2 Heroic Old Men -- 2.2.1 Nestor -- 2.2.2 Phoinix -- 2.3 Helen -- 2.4 The 'Greek' Trojans -- 2.4.1 Priam, Hekabe -- 2.4.2 Hektor, Astyanax, Andromache -- 2.4.3 Paris-Alexandros -- 2.4.4 Aineias -- 3. Names from the Odyssey -- 3.1 Odysseus -- 3.2 Odysseus' Family -- 3.2.1 Laertes, Antikleia -- 3.2.2 Telemachos -- 3.2.3 Penelope -- 3.3 Odysseus' Travels -- 3.3.1 Kalypso and Kirke -- 3.3.2 Polyphemos -- 3.3.3 Some Phaeacian names -- 3.3.4 Odysseus' companions -- 3.4 'Secondary' Names on Ithaca -- 3.4.1 The servants -- 3.4.2 The suitors -- 4. 'Minor' speaking names -- 5. Afterword -- 6. Appendix. Homeric Personal Names as Historical Names: Preliminary Remarks -- 7. Bibliography -- Name Index.