Peter Gainsford

Publications

• Achilles' views on death: succession and the Odyssey
• Early Greek hexameter poetry
• The dates of Jesus
• Family
• Homer and hip-hop: improvisation, cultural heritage, and metrical analysis
• The Odyssey: a survey of recent developments
• Diktys of Crete
• Herodotus' Homer: Troy, the Dorians, and Thermopylae
• Kinship
• How many Libraries of Alexandria are there to a Library of Congress?
• Cognition and type-scenes: the aoidos at work
• Odyssey 20.356-57 and the eclipse of 1178 BCE: a response to Baikouzis and Magnasco
• Non-Homeric hexameter
• Sibling terminology in Homer: problems with κασίγνητος and ἀδελφεός
• Satire and the marginal text: Lucian parodies Diktys (VH 2.25–26)
• Recognition scene
• Review: Goward, Aeschylus: Agamemnon | Podlecki (ed., trans.) Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
• Formal analysis of recognition scenes in the Odyssey
• Review: Hirschberger, Gynaikôn Katalogos und Megalai Ehoiai | Hunter (ed.), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
• Where does the proem of the Odyssey end?
• Conflict and character in Aeschylus' Agamemnon
• Review: Foley, How to read an oral poem (University of Illinois Press, 2002)
• Review: Alden, Homer beside himself. Para-narratives in the Iliad (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Review: de May (trans.), Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
• The deaths of Beowulf and Odysseus: narrative time and mythological tale-types
• Review: (W.) Hansen, Ariadne's Thread. A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002)
• Early Greek hexameter inscriptions
• Review: P. Gilet, Vladimir Propp and the Universal Folktale: Recommissioning an Old Paradigm—Story as Initiation
• Homer's archetypal family: a pattern of relations
• Truth behind myth: video games and the recreation of the Trojan War
• The Aeneid and the Epic Cycle
• Migration and de-migration. The Catalogue of Ships as a lesson in pre-Dorian geography
• When is a gift not a gift? Ambiguity and bargaining in Homeric gift-exchange
• Historical Homer? The invention of the Trojan War
• Odyssey Book 1