Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Why Teach Homery -- Reading Homer through Oral Tradition -- Res Agens: Towards an Ontology of the Homeric Self -- Feet, Fate, and Finitude: On Standing and Inertia in the Iliad -- Learning Lessons from the Trojan War: Briseis and the Theme of Force -- Poulydamas and Hektor -- ìias and the Gods -- Homer and the Will of Zeus -- Assembly and Hospitality in the Cyclopeia -- Rewriting the Odyssey in the Twenty-First Century: Mary Zimmerman's Odyssey and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad -- Contributors -- Index.