Preface and Acknowledgments List of abbreviations EPOS AND LOGOS: HOMER AND TROY;; Malcolm WIENER; Homer and History: Old Questions, New Evidence;; Marianna NIKOLAIDOU and Dimitra KOKKINIDOU; Epos, History, Metahistory in Aegean Bronze Age Studies;; Maureen BASEDOW; Troy without Homer: the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the Troad;; Sarah P. MORRIS; Troy Between Bronze and Iron Ages: Myth, Cult and Memory in a Sacred Landscape EPOS AND EIKON: ART, POETRY AND WRITING John YOUNGER; The Mycenaean Bard: The Evidence for Sound and Song;; Robert LAFFINEUR; Homeric Similes: A Bronze Age Background?;; Edmund F. BLOEDOW; Homer and the depas amphikypellon;; L. Vance WATROUS; The Fleet Fresco, the Odyssey and Greek Epic Narrative;; Andreas VLACHOPOULOS; Mythos, Logos and Eikon. Motifs of Early Greek Poetry in the Wall Paintings of Xeste 3 WANAX AND BASILEUS: RULERSHIP IN HOMER AND ARCHAEOLOGY Pierre CARLIER; Are the Homeric Basileis ‘Big Men’?;; Thomas G. PALAIMA; Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View;; Bryan E. BURNS; Epic Reconstructions: Homeric Palaces and Mycenaean Architecture;; Brendan BURKE; Gordion of Midas and the Homeric Age Eric H. CLINE and Assaf YASUR-LANDAU; Poetry in Motion: Canaanite Rulership and Minoan Narrative Art at Tel Kabri BEYOND ELITE: HOMERIC SOCIETY AND ARCHAEOLOGY Kim S. SHELTON; Foot Soldiers and Cannon Fodder: The Underrepresented Majority of the Mycenaean Civilization;; Helene WHITTAKER; Sacrificial Practice and Warfare in Homer and in the Bronze Age;; Andrea GUZETTI; Homer and the Dorians: The Reasons For a Missed Encounter EPOS AND MYTHOS Ernestine S. ELSTER; Odysseys Before Homer: Trade, Travel, and Adventure in Prehistoric Greece;; Cynthia S. COLBURN; The Symbolic Significance of Distance in the Homeric Epics and the Bronze Age Aegean;; Fritz BLAKOLMER; The Silver Battle Krater from Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae: Evidence of Fighting Heroes on Minoan Palace Walls at Knossos?;; Massimo PERNA; Homer and the Folded Wooden Tablets EPOS AND TOPOS: HOMERIC LANDSCAPES Oliver DICKINSON; Aspects of Homeric Geography;; Philip P. BETANCOURT; The Amnissos Cave: Poetry Meets Reality;; Aleydis VAN DE MOORTEL; The Site of Mitrou and East Lokris in Homeric Times;; Anne P. CHAPIN and Louise A. HITCHCOCK; Homer and Laconian Topography: This Is What the Book Says, and This Is What the Land Tells Us;; Naya SGOURITSA; Myth, Epos and Mycenaean Attica: The Evidence Reconsidered.