[Missing text] : the Dionysiac element in the Iliad -- [Missing text] : the self-referential encomium of the Odyssey and the tradition of the Nostoi -- Nausicaa and the Daughters of Anius : terms and limits of epic rivalry -- Intertextual fissures : the returns of Odysseus and the new Penelope -- [Missing text] : from the Cypria to the Iliad -- Viewing from the walls, viewing Helen : language and indeterminacy in the 'Teichoscopia' -- Time games : the 'twenty-year' absent hero -- The formula [missing text] : Homeric reflections of an Indo-European metaphor -- Genealogy and imagery of a Homeric formula : [missing text] -- The rhetorics of supplication and the epic intertext (Iliad i 493/516) -- Intertextuality and intratextual disality : Thetis' lament in Iliad xviii 52/64) -- Mapping the hypertext : similes in Iliad xxii.