Steve Reece
Biographic Data
| ID | 703209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Reece |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Reece |
| SIGNATURE | REECE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Olaf College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3480-4712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Slaughter of Goats in Odyssey Book 9 as an Anticipatory Doublet
The account in Odyssey Book 9 of Odysseus’ safe arrival by ship on ‘Goat Island’ off the coast of the land of the Cyclopes, the elaborate description of the geography of the island itself, and even the specific detail of Odysseus and his shipmates slaughtering with bows and spears 108 + 1 wild goats all work together to serve as an ‘anticipatory doublet’ of the account in the second half of the epic of Odysseus’ safe arrival by ship on the island…
The Fathers of Telemachus
The poet of the Odyssey exhibits great artistic flexibility in his handling of the highly conventional elements of early Greek epic: larger themes and narrative patterns, character and episodic doublets and triplets, type-scenes, and even short formulaic phrases. The poet’s presentation of a sequence of ‘just as a father to his own son’ formulas over the course of the Odyssey is examined here, with a view to illustrating how they interact with on…
Echoes of Plato’s Apology of Socrates in Luke-Acts
As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates , one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE . Indeed, it appears that “Luke” may have used his, and his readers’, familiarity with stories about the life, trial, and death of Socrates, and with the account in Plato’s Apology …
‘Aesop’, ‘Q’ and ‘Luke’
The last chapter of the gospel of Luke includes a story of the risen Christ meeting two of his disciples on their way from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus and chastising them with the poetic expression ὦ ἀνόητοι καὶ βραδεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ ‘O foolish ones, and slow in heart’ (Luke 24.25). No commentator has ever observed that Jesus' expression occurs verbatim, in the same iambic trimeter metre, in two poetic versions of animal fables attributed to t…
Type‐Scenes
Epithets
Digressions
Metacharacterism
Hapax Legomena
Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer's Odyssey
Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer's Odyssey1 Steve Reece (bio) My contribution to this Festschrift for Professor John Miles Foley has its origin in an experimental course on comparative oral traditions titled "The Singers of Tales" that I have taught three times in quite different formats, once at Vanderbilt University and twice at Saint Olaf College. I began envisioning this course at the 1992 NEH Summer Seminar on Comparative …
Homer's Winged Words
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer's 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry's oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period…
Homer’s Winged and Wingless Words
The Homeric Aσαμινος
The [Abioi] and the [Gabioi]
The [inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="01i" /] and the [inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="02i" /]:An Aeschylean Solution to a Homeric Problem Steve Reece At the beginning of Iliad 13 ZEUS turns his eyes away from the bloody slaughter on the battlefield, where the Trojans are furiously attacking the ships of the Achaeans, and instead directs his gaze far off toward the north a…
Some Homeric Etymologies in the Light of Oral-Formulaic Theory
The Cretan Odyssey
Ancient Greek Studies and Folkloristics
The Cretan Odyssey
Homer’s Winged and Wingless Words
Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer's Odyssey
Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer's Odyssey1 Steve Reece (bio) My contribution to this Festschrift for Professor John Miles Foley has its origin in an experimental course on comparative oral traditions titled "The Singers of Tales" that I have taught three times in quite different formats, once at Vanderbilt University and twice at Saint Olaf College. I began envisioning this course at the 1992 NEH Summer Seminar on Comparative …
The Homeric Aσαμινος
The Cretan Odyssey
Ancient Greek Studies and Folkloristics
Some Homeric Etymologies in the Light of Oral-Formulaic Theory
The [Abioi] and the [Gabioi]
The [inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="01i" /] and the [inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="02i" /]:An Aeschylean Solution to a Homeric Problem Steve Reece At the beginning of Iliad 13 ZEUS turns his eyes away from the bloody slaughter on the battlefield, where the Trojans are furiously attacking the ships of the Achaeans, and instead directs his gaze far off toward the north a…
The Homeric Aσαμινος
Homer's Winged Words
For over 2500 years many of the most learned scholars of the Greek language have concerned themselves with the topic of etymology. The most productive source of difficult, even inexplicable, words was Homer's 28,000 verses of epic poetry. Steve Reece proposes an approach to elucidating the meanings of some of these difficult words that finds its inspiration primarily in Milman Parry's oral-formulaic theory. He proposes that during the long period…
Homer’s Winged and Wingless Words
Type‐Scenes
Epithets
Digressions
Metacharacterism
Hapax Legomena
Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer's Odyssey
Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer's Odyssey1 Steve Reece (bio) My contribution to this Festschrift for Professor John Miles Foley has its origin in an experimental course on comparative oral traditions titled "The Singers of Tales" that I have taught three times in quite different formats, once at Vanderbilt University and twice at Saint Olaf College. I began envisioning this course at the 1992 NEH Summer Seminar on Comparative …
‘Aesop’, ‘Q’ and ‘Luke’
The last chapter of the gospel of Luke includes a story of the risen Christ meeting two of his disciples on their way from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus and chastising them with the poetic expression ὦ ἀνόητοι καὶ βραδεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ ‘O foolish ones, and slow in heart’ (Luke 24.25). No commentator has ever observed that Jesus' expression occurs verbatim, in the same iambic trimeter metre, in two poetic versions of animal fables attributed to t…
Echoes of Plato’s Apology of Socrates in Luke-Acts
As a literate and well-educated person, the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (“Luke”) would have been familiar with Plato’s Apology of Socrates , one of the most widely-known ancient Greek texts in the Mediterranean world in the 1st century CE . Indeed, it appears that “Luke” may have used his, and his readers’, familiarity with stories about the life, trial, and death of Socrates, and with the account in Plato’s Apology …
The Slaughter of Goats in Odyssey Book 9 as an Anticipatory Doublet
The account in Odyssey Book 9 of Odysseus’ safe arrival by ship on ‘Goat Island’ off the coast of the land of the Cyclopes, the elaborate description of the geography of the island itself, and even the specific detail of Odysseus and his shipmates slaughtering with bows and spears 108 + 1 wild goats all work together to serve as an ‘anticipatory doublet’ of the account in the second half of the epic of Odysseus’ safe arrival by ship on the island…
The Fathers of Telemachus
The poet of the Odyssey exhibits great artistic flexibility in his handling of the highly conventional elements of early Greek epic: larger themes and narrative patterns, character and episodic doublets and triplets, type-scenes, and even short formulaic phrases. The poet’s presentation of a sequence of ‘just as a father to his own son’ formulas over the course of the Odyssey is examined here, with a view to illustrating how they interact with on…
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