Frontmatter List of Figures 0. Introduction: 'With What Eyes.?' 0.1. Divine Perspectives 0.2. The 'Divine Audience' 0.3.
Homer's Audience' 1. Zeus, the Poet and Vision 1.1. The Proem's Promise 1.1.a. The Poet and Audience Involvement 1.1.
b. Dios d'eteleieto boul? 1.2. Realizing the Proem's Promise: An Illustrative Example from Book 16 1.3. The Gods and Metapoetics 2. The Duel and the Dais: Iliadic Warfare as Spectacle 2.1.
Defining the Gods' Role as Audience 2.1.a. Divine Viewing Linked to Battle and Corpses (Book 1) 2.1.b. Staging the Spectacle of War (Book 2) 2.1.
c. The Duel as a Paradigm of Military Spectacle (Book 3) 2.1.d. The Significance of Duel and Dais for the Gods' Viewing Role (Book 4) 2.2. Implications for Homer's Audience 2.2.
a. Textual Cues Pointing to a Mise en Abyme 2.2.b. The Effect of the Mise en Abyme 2.2.c. Homer's Audience as Viewers of the Warfare 3.
'Let Us Cease': Early Reflections on the Spectacle's End 3.1. The Divine Audience and the Duel between Hector and Aias 3.1.a. Textual Cues Suggesting a Mise en Abyme 3.1.b.
Athena and Apollo Dramatise Tensions in Audience Response 3.1.c. A New Narrative About the Warfare 3.2. The Achaean Wall and the End of the Iliad 4. 'Many Contests of the Trojans and Achaeans': The Iliad's Battle Books 4.1.
Staging the Iliad's Battle Books 4.1.a. Staging Day 2: Continued Use of the Duel as a Paradigm 4.1.b. Staging Day 3: A Hint of Funerary Spectacle 4.1.
c. Staging Day 4: Variations on the Duel Paradigm with Funerary Spectacle 4.2. Audience Involvement and Response 4.2.a. Audience 'Involvement' in the Warfare Itself 4.2.
b. Audience Response to the Staging and Direction of the Warfare 4.3. Zeus' Gaze and the Contests as Funeral Rites 4.4. A Metaperformative Reading of the Theomachia 5. 'A Man Having Died': Watching Achilles and Hector 5.1.
A Hybrid Spectacle 5.2. Textual Cues Pointing to a Mise en Abyme 5.3. The Divine Gaze and the Imperfect Moment 6. Conclusion: The Iliad and the Odyssey Endmatter Appendix: Explicit Statements of Divine Viewing Bibliography Index.