Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Homeric Iliad and the Glory of the Unseasonal Hero -- Achilles as Epic Hero and the Idea of Total Recall in Song -- Achilles and the Poetics of Lament -- Achilles as Lyric Hero in the Songs of Sappho and Pindar -- When Mortals Become 'Equal' to Immortals: Death of a Hero, Death of a Bridegroom -- Patroklos as the Other Self of Achilles -- The Sign of the Hero in Visual and Verbal Art -- The Psychology of the Hero's Sign in the Homeric Iliad -- The Return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey -- The Mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey -- Blessed are the Heroes: the Cult Hero in Homeric Poetry and Beyond -- The Cult Hero as an Exponent of Justice in Homeric Poetry and Beyond -- A Crisis in Reading the World of Heroes -- Longing for a Hero: a Retrospective -- What the Hero 'Means' -- Heroic Aberration in the Agamemnon od Aeschylus -- Looking Beyond the Cult Hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus -- Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and the Power of the Cult Hero in Death -- Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Heroic Pollution -- The Hero as Mirror of Men's and Women's Experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides -- The Hero's Agony in the Bacchae of Euripides -- The Living Word I: Socrates in Plato's Apology of Socrates -- The Living Word II: More on Plato's Socrates in the Phaedo -- The Hero as Savior.

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