Why teach Homer? / Kostas Myrsiades -- Reading Homer through oral tradition / John Miles Foley -- Res agens : towards an ontology of the Homeric self / Damian Stocking -- Feet, fate, and finitude : on standing and inertia in the Iliad / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou -- Learning lessons from the Trojan War : Briseis and the theme of force / Casey Dué -- Poulydamas and Hektor / Matthew Clark -- Aias and the gods / William Duffy -- Homer and the will of Zeus / Joe Wilson -- Assembly and hospitality in the cyclôpeia / Rick M. Newton -- Rewriting the Odyssey in the twenty--first century : Mary Zimmerman's Odyssey and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad / Mihoko Zuzuki