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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2022

Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
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Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration , pp. 355 - 362
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Index

A-B-C pattern. See types of dependence
actors’ categories, 6, 10
Alcman, 77
Altar of the Twelve Gods. See road signs
Anaximander, 3, 67
Anaximenes, 3, 67
Anscombe, G.E.M., 1, 127 n. 34
Archaeology of Knowledge, 16–19, 20
discourse modes
and ordering of enunciative series, 120
discursive archaeology
vs metaphor, 20, 124 n. 18
discursive regularities, 16–19
and intertextuality, 20
forms of succession, 119–121
levels of dependence, 120
Archilochus, 77
argument. See extended deductive argumentation
absence of in Golden Tablets, 185
and rhetorical schema of hodos, 229
as discourse mode
in Fr. 2 and Od. 12.55–126, 207–209
in Heraclitus, 227–228, 229
in Milesian accounts, 227
in Od. 12.55–126, 177–181
in Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 230
in Sirens and Thrinacia episodes, 151–154
in Xenophanes, 227–228, 229
key features of, 127–128
vs reasoning, 15–16
Aristotle, 6, 31, 40, 275
definition of apodeixis, 2
astronomy, Parmenides and, 2
atomic tradition, Parmenides and, 2
Austin, N., 173
Austin, S., interpretation of Fr. 8 of, 265–267
Bacchylides, 73, 74
Bakker, E.
on A-B-C patterns, 129
on men … de … clauses, 164
on nostos as quest, 289, 291
Barnes, J., 228, 306, 310
Bicknell, P. J., 306
Bodnár, I., 302, 304, 305–306, 307
Burnet, J., 4
catalogic discourse, 24
and sēmata in Fr. 8, 223
as list, 130–131
as series, 131
definition of, 129–131
key features of, 133–135
Catalogue of Ships, 128, 145
Catalogue of Women, 112
change in epistemic status of poetry
driven by diachronic processes, 89–92
driven by genre, 92–93
Charybdis. See Homer, Odyssey
Chatman, S., 171
Circe, 129
and elegy, 83
and hodos in Od. 10, 138, 141, 142
and hodos in Od. 12, 144, 146–148
and Sirens and Thrinacia, 148–157
and Parmenides’ goddess, 102, 104–105, 110, 114–116, 196–203
first-person speech, use of, 107–108
con-sequence
definition of, 140
in hodos in Od. 12.37–141, 192
in Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 218, 248
transition to logical consequence from, 218, 260–261, 264, 282
Cornford, F., 4
Couloubaritsis, L., 131
Curd, P., 308, 309, 311, 312
deliberation, Homeric, 180, 181, 187, 189, 281
and Fr. 2, 208–209
and krisis, 211, 213
Democritus, 1, 277
demonstration
importance of hodos for development of, 18–19, 281–283
key features of, 1–3
beginning. See krisis, importance for demonstration
conclusion. See hodos, as activity, teleological nature of
extended deductive argumentation. See extended deductive argumentation
outline of in Parmenides’ poem, 22–27
Derrida, J., 67
Descartes, R., 8
description, 120, 225
-by-negation, 174, 193, 211
with modal charge, 175–176
in rhetorical schema of hodos, 141–142
in Fr. 2, 205–207
in Fr. 8, 231–232, 233–238
in Od. 12.55–126, 159–160, 164, 170, 171–176, 177–181, 205–207
in Sirens and Thrinacia episodes, 148–151
key features of, 125–127
within krisis portion, 166–171
without descriptivity, 132, 248
Dike, 82, 98 n.124, 99
Diogenes of Apollonia, 214
discourse modes, 125–128
discourse-unit
and rhetorical schema of hodos, 283
in Od. 10 and Od. 12, 205
meaning of, 162
discursive regularities. See Archaeology of Knowledge
discursive systematicity
and the rhetorical schema of hodos, 229
features of, 226
in Heraclitus, 229
in Milesian accounts, 226–227, 229
in Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 230
in Xenophanes, 228, 229
Dolin, E., 102
double motivation, 108
einai, use of
in Od. 12.55–126, 171–173, 179, 180, 182, 190, 193, 210, 281
and Parmenides’ poem, 191
Empedocles, 67, 204, 277
enunciative series, ordering of. See Archaeology of Knowledge, ordering of enunciative series
epei
in Parmenides’ poem, 219
epei and gar
as a feature of argument discourse mode, 128
in argument sections, 177–181, 193
in Fr. 2, 207
in Od. 12.55–126, 177–181, 182, 190, 191
epic poetics
and Invocation of the Muses in Il. 2, 95–96
and ‘poetics of truth’, 85–87, 93–94, 95–96
and Parmenides’ poem, 113–114
and ‘rhetoric of traditionality’, 85–87
and ‘special speech’, 85–87
and ‘traditional referentiality’, 85–87
episode, vs hodos unit and discourse-unit, 158, 161–165
exclusive, exhaustive disjunction. See krisis
extended deductive argumentation
as component of demonstration, 1
as narrativity without narration, description without descriptivity, 132, 237, 248, 264
importance of hodos for invention of, 260–261, 275–276, 282–283
Parmenides’ invention of, 5, 11–12, 19–27, 119–120, 225, 271–276
and interpretations of Fr. 8, 265, 270
and Od. 12.37–141, 193–194
Finkelberg, M., 95
Ford, A., 75
gar. See epei and gar
genealogy. See hodos, as rhetorical schema, vs genealogy
and degree of argumentation afforded, 227
and discursive systematicity, 226–227
as catalogic discourse, 136
Gill, C. See deliberation, Homeric
Golden Tablets, 193
absence of argument in, 185
crossroads image in, 183–185
vs Od. 12.55–126, 185–189
Granger, H., 109–110
Great Panathenaea, 73
Greek Miracle, Parmenides and the, 4
Halliwell, S., 93, 95, 114
Havelock, E.
linguistic task of Presocratics, 233, 234–235, 248
on Parmenides and Homer, 13–14, 16, 72, 124 n. 18, 237 n. 63
Hecataeus, 89, 108
Hegel, G. W. F., 1
Heidegger, M., 1, 67
Heraclitus, 3, 74, 111, 305, 306
and Homer, 73
argumentation in, 227–228, 229
discursive systematicity in, 228–229
herms, 43–44
and Parmenides’ sēmata, 44, 222
Herodotus, 41
Hesiod, 68
and Parmenides, 23
epistemological framework of, 94, 97, 114–116
and Parmenides, 71–72
Theogony, 233
and Parmenides’ poem, 84
as model for Milesians, 226
as series, 131
Muses in, 69–71, 97
and Parmenides’ goddess, 99–102, 103–104
Works and Days
and Parmenides’ poem, 84
crossroads, 183–184, 193
vs Od. 12.55–126, 185–189
Hestia, 284
hodos
and the concept of method, 27, 300
as activity
and linguistic aspect, 58–60
purposive nature of, 52–56
relationship to accomplishments of, 60–63
semantics of, 47–48, 52–63
spatial destination of, 56–57
teleological nature of, 52–59
in Odyssey and Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 296
as catalogic discourse, 131–132, 281
importance for invention of extended deductive argumentation of, 218, 282–283
in Od. 12.39–141, 191–194
as crossroads. See krisis
as physical object, 12
and logical necessity in Parmenides’ poem, 40, 45–46, 64, 108, 115, 254–255, 257–261
and organization of space, 33–35
management of, 40–41
and organization of space, 46
road signs on, 42–44
as rut road, 35–40
construction of, 36–37, 38
dimensions of, 37–38
semantics of, 46–47, 48–52, 63
travel by wheeled vehicles on, 39–40
as rhetorical schema, 131–132, 281, 282
and argumentation, 229
and description, 141–142
without descriptivity, 248
and discursive systematicity, 229
and narrativity, 137–138, 139–140
without narration, 248
and types of dependence, 138–142
as series, not list, 144, 248
epistemological implications of, 233–237
importance for epistemology of, 248
importance for invention of extended deductive argumentation of, 218, 230, 275–276, 282–283
in Od. 12.39–141, 146–149, 191–194
in Od. 55–126, 157–161
in Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 249–251
in Fr. 8, 223–226, 252–255, 263–267
key features of, 143–145
ontological implications of, 233–238, 241–242, 248–249
relationship to space of, 135–137
rhetorical power of, 264
vs genealogy, 233–237, 241–242, 248–249
importance of
for emergence of demonstration, 281
for extended deductive argumentation, 281
semantic field of, 12
two meanings of, 225
implications for Parmenides’ poem of, 260–261, 262
vs keleuthos, implications for Fr. 2, 262
hodos dizēsios. See Parmenides’ poem, ‘Route to Truth’
as network of meanings, 10–12
hodos-unit, 192, 211, 243
analysis of Od. 12.39–141 by, 161
analysis of Od. 12.55–126 by, 163, 164
analysis of ‘Route to Truth’ by, 214–216, 218, 223–226
definition of, 162
Hölscher, U., 306
Homer
Iliad
Invocation of the Muses, 68, 76–77, 80, 95–96
and Parmenides’ goddess, 99–102, 104
and Xenophanes, 71
maximalist reading of, 114–116
late archaic reception of, 66–67, 72–76, 95–96, 114
Odyssey
12.37–141, 146–157, 191–194
and Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 218, 223–226, 235–237
temporality of, 235–237
12.55–126, 157–181
and Parmenides’ Fr. 2, 203–216
and Parmenides’ Fr. 8, 234–237
and Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 185–191
distinctiveness of, 185–191
and Parmenides’ poem, 83
Apologoi, 107
and Parmenides’ hodos dizēsios, 197–203
end of, and end of Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 296–298
temporality of
plot of, 242
story of, 242
‘Golden Verses’, 74
and Solon’s ‘Eunomia’, 80–82
Homeric Hymns
and epiphany, 97
and poetics of truth, 96
Hopman, M., 164
Hymn to Aphrodite, 112
Hymn to Apollo, 73, 92, 93, 111
Hymn to Demeter, 112
Ibycus, 67, 68, 111
‘Polycrates Ode’, 76
and epic poetics, 87
and Homer’s Muses, 77
and poetics of truth, 96
intertextuality, 10
and discursive archaeology, 20
between Parmenides and Homer, 21–22, 75, 181–183, 185–191, 214, 305
criteria for assessing, 182–183, 189–191
de Jong, I. J. F., 158, 160, 161, 174
Kant, I., 8
Karsten, S., 249
Kenny–Vendler verb types, 60–63
accomplishments, 61–62
Kirk and Raven, 308, 311, 312
Kirk, G. S., 233–234, 235
Knudsen, R., 151–153, 179, 181, 187
krisis
and modally charged negation
in Fr. 2, 212
in Od. 12.55–126, 191
definition of, 166
importance for demonstration, 214–216
in Od. 12.55–126, 166–171, 181–182, 192–194, 282
distinctiveness of, 183–191
in Od. 12.55–126 and Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 217
in Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 282
description organized by, 166, 205
types of dependence within. See types of dependence
and description, 189
list, 248
features of, 130–131
Lloyd, G. E. R., 6–7, 10, 15–16, 253
polar expressions. See polar expressions
logical necessity
and hodos as physical object, 40, 45–46, 64, 108, 115, 258–261
Lowe, N., 283
McKirahan, R., interpretation of Fr. 8 of, 267–270
Melissus, 1, 67
men … de … clauses
in Fr. 2, 205–206
and Od. 12.55–126, 204–205
in Od. 12.55–73, 164
in Od. 12.73–126, 164–165
method, concept of, 14
and relationship to hodos, 27, 300
Milesians, the
argumentation in, 227, 229
discursive systematicity in, 226–227, 229
Miller, M., 109
Mimnermus, 77
Mogyoródi, E., 240
Most, G., 199
Mourelatos, A. P. D., 240, 249
on ‘motif of chariotry’ and ‘theme of Fate-Constraint’, 256–258
on Parmenides and Homer, 13–15, 16, 72, 124 n. 18
on road imagery in Parmenides’ poem, 18
on sēmata in Parmenides’ poem, 44, 296
on ‘positive teleology’ of Peithous keleuthos, 261–262
narration, 120, 225
in Fr. 8, 230–231
in rhetorical schema of hodos
in Fr. 2, 205
in Od. 12.55–126, 159, 160–190, 205
key features of, 125–127
loss of in Fr. 8, 233–237
narrativity without, 132, 248
negation
in Od. 12.55–126, 173–176
with modal charge, 190, 191, 193, 210
in Fr. 2, 207
in krisis, 212–214
in Od. 12.55–126, 175–176, 178–179
nostos
as quest, 287–289, 295–296
failed, 156
teleological nature of
and bed of Odysseus, 284–287
and Parmenides’ hodos dizēsios, 200–202
observers’ categories. See actors’ categories
Odysseus
and Parmenides’ kouros, 196–203
bed of, 283–296
and Parmenides’ to eon, 293–296
and teleological nature of nostos of, 284–287
and test of identity of, 287–289
as empedon sēma, 289–293
oimē
and rhetorical schema, 121–124
Owen, G. E. L., 219
interpretation of Fr. 8 of, 251, 253–255, 265
Palmer, J., 307
Parmenidean apology, 283
and end of Odyssey, 296–298
Parmenides
as poet, 109, 114–116, 264
Parmenides’ goddess
and Circe, 102, 104–105, 107–108, 110, 114–116, 196–203
and epic Muses, 98–102
and first-person speech, use of, 104–108
and Hesiod’s Muses, 99–102, 103–104
multiple possible identites of, 98, 110
Parmenides’ kouros
and audience of poem, 245–247
and Odysseus, 196–203
Parmenides’ poem, 104
and Hesiod’s Theogony, 84
and Hesiod’s Works and Days, 84
and Od. 12.55–126
and Fr. 2, 203–216
and poetics of truth, 114–116
and religious ritual, 23–24, 108–110
and semantics of hodos, 63–64, 254–255, 259–261
argument in
Fr. 2, 207–209, 214–216
as poem, 5
description in
Fr. 2, 205–207
Fr. 8, 231–232, 233–238
dialectical nature of , 245, 246–247
in Fr. 2, 215
in relation to Od. 12, 209–211
Doxa, 25, 103, 104, 297
place in Parmenides’ poem, 249
Fr. 5, 249, 301–313
narration in
Fr. 2, 205
Fr. 8, 230–231
philosophical vs other interpretations of, 25–26, 270–278
proem of, 82–84, 98–102, 104–108
and elegy, 82–83
as journey to Muse, 97–98
time of narration, 247–248
‘Route to Truth’
and the Apologoi, 197–203
as catalogic discourse, 131–132, 218
as series vs. list, 249–251, 251–255
story-world of, 249–251, 263–264
Fr. 8, 251–255
epistemological implications of, 240–241
intentional vagueness of, 245
ontological implications of, 241, 247
and plot, 242–244
structure of argumentation of vs interpretation of arguments of, 252
temporality of
epistemological implications of, 247
implications for narration and narrativity, 248
and plot, 247–248
time of narration, 244–247
types of dependence in Fr. 2
and Od. 12.55–126, 205–207
use of dactylic hexameter for, 110–114
and ‘poetics of truth’, 114
Penelope
and bed of Odysseus, 287–289
peira of
as valid proof (empedon sēma), 289–293
deductive character of, 287–289
Pindar, 67, 68, 73, 74, 111
and Parmenides, 23
epinicians of, 89
and epic poetics, 88
Muses in, and Homer’s Muses, 105
Paean 6, 76, 93
and epic poetics, 87
and Homer’s Muses, 78–79
epistemic status of, 89–92
Paean 7b, 76
and epic poetics, 87
and Homer’s Muses, 78–79
epistemic status of, 89–92
paeans of
and poetics of truth, 96
relationship to the Muses of, 105–107
Planctae. See Homer, Odyssey
Plato, 173, 277
and dating of Parmenides, 65
polar expressions, 186, 187, 188
definition of, 165
de Polignac, F., 33–34
Popper, K., 1, 283, See Parmenidean apology
Ranzato, S.
and ‘polysemy of myth’, 109
Reinhardt, K., 306
rhetorical modes. See discourse modes
rhetorical schemata
and Lord-Parry ‘theme’, 122–123
definition of, 120
vs oimē, 121–124
ring composition
and Parmenides’ hodos dizēsios, 200–202
road signs
Altar of the Twelve Gods as, 42–43
and Parmenides’ poem, 43, 222
and Parmenides’ poem, 45–46
and Parmenides’ sēmata, 221–223
herms as, 43–44
and Parmenides’ poem, 43–44
and Parmenides’ sēmata, 222
on Thasos, 44–45
Rowett, C., 111
Russell, B., 1, 8, 67
Schofield, M., 4
Scodel, R., 89, 108
Scylla. See Homer, Odyssey
Sedley, D.
interpretation of Fr. 8 of, 251, 252–254, 263–264
implications for Fr. 5, 309
sēma, 146
and Od. 12, 221
as discursive
in Fr. 8, 220, 223, 254–255
in Od. 12, 221
in Od. 23, 289–293
as object
and herms, 44
in Fr. 8, 220, 221–223, 254–255
and Ancient Greek road signs, 221–223
in Od. 23, 289–293
empedon
as valid proof in Od. 23, 289–293
in Fr. 8, 220–226
series, 248
features of, 131
Serres, M., 131
Shield of Heracles, 112
Simonides, 67, 68, 73, 74, 111
‘Plataea Elegy’, 76
and Homer’s Muses, 79
and poetics of truth, 87, 96
19 (IEG), 75
Sirens. See Homer, Odyssey
Solon
‘Eunomia’, 76
and Parmenides’ proem, 82–83
and the ‘Golden Verses’, 80–82
Stesichorus, 73
Story-world
of Apologoi, 313
of Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 249–251, 313
of Fr. 8, 254–255
succession, forms of. See Archaeology of Knowledge, forms of succession
Tarán, L., 304
text-types. See discourse modes
Theagenes of Rhegium, 74
Themis, 99
Theognis, 183
Thrinacia. See Homer, Odyssey
Tiresias, 57, 107, 146, 170, 285, 295, 296
to eon
and bed of Odysseus, 293–296
relationship between qualities of, 223–224, 251, 254–255, 258–261, 263–264
Tor, S., 100, 201
on ‘reasoning’ vs ‘revelation’, 69–70, 109
types of dependence
and A-B-C patterns, 129, 145
and Catalogue of Ships, 129
and Homeric scholarship, 128–129
features of, 120
in Homeric hodos, 281
within rhetorical schema of hodos, 138–142, 144–145, 283
in Fr. 8, 192
in Od. 10, 192
in Od. 12.37–141, 192–193, 192–193
in Parmenides’ ‘Route to Truth’, 192, 230
within krisis, 166–171, 189
in Fr. 2, 207, 208–209
in Od. 12 and Fr. 2, 207–208, 214–216
in Od. 55–126, 166–181
Vernant, J.-P., 4, 284–285
Wittgenstein, L., 8, 67
Xenophanes, 3, 67, 68, 74, 85, 106, 111
and Homer, 71, 73
argumentation in, 227–228, 229
critique of ‘folk epistemology’, 238–240
discursive systematicity in, 228, 229
epistemological framework of, 71–72, 94, 97, 108, 115
Parmenides’ response to, 71–72, 108–110
temporality of epistemological theories of, 238–240
use of verse of, 112
Zeno, 1, 67, 111