I am not much of a chess-player. If I were to print n.30 on pp. All theoretical terms pose problems that Lowe candidly confronts and the reader must remember. Amplitude competes with economy and requires both an impressive scale and pacing that preserves an intelligible story. Various narrative shorthands, including tokens of identity or treasure-maps, aid in maintaining amplitude.
Endings distinguish fictional worlds from real ones.
His breathless survey can be contradicted on most of these points, especially the last. While Herodotus' closure is unOdyssean, it is demonstrably Iliadic with its pointing to further inevitable conflict despite the close of certain figures' and states' careers. Lowe discusses how small and large spaces contribute to plot-structure, not to fictional psychology. Given his interest in literary cognition, the psychology of reading, I regret that he never explores proxemics, the human structuring of space, by characters within the plot and by the reader. Direct speech is the only device allowing deep access to Homeric characters' inner life.