Creatures of Speech Lion, Herding, and Hunting Similes in the Iliad [Paperback]

I Animals in the Similes.- II Animals in the Poems.- III The Beast of War: Lion Similes.- IV The Lion as Marauder of the Herds and as Hunter.- V Pursuit in Battle: Hunting Similes.- VI Pursuit and Attack: Reversals in Hunting Imagery.- VII Conclusions: Animal Imagery in the Homeric Narrative.- Appendixes.- A. A Register of Identifiable Species in the Poems.- B. A List of Emotive States Attributed to Animals.- Expressions and Words for Emotive States and Seats of Emotion Applied to Animals.- C. Formulae in Lion Similes.- Tables Showing Phraseology from Lion Similes.- Table 1: Corresponding Phrases Restricted to Lion Similes.- Table 2: Non-Restricted Repeated Lion Vocabulary.- Table 3: Lion Vocabulary Shared with Other Animals.- D. A List of Line References to Lion Similes in Homer.- Index Locorum.