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2022
Humans try to fix identity through names and stories, but with both there is a danger: on the one hand of freezing identity and on the other of becoming purely constructed and relative. The play with names that characterizes Odysseus and Bloom reveals their essential relation to others, as does their sensitivity to stories, but also threatens their ...
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Humans try to fix identity through names and stories, but with both there is a danger: on the one hand of freezing identity and on the other of becoming purely constructed and relative. The play with names that characterizes Odysseus and Bloom reveals their essential relation to others, as does their sensitivity to stories, but also threatens their ...
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2017
The poem compares Odysseus with Heracles through shared epithets and exploits (including catabasis and archery), but the Heracles paradigm is discredited by Heracles’ murder of his guest-friend Iphitus. The vignette of Odysseus’ naming by his grandfather, Autolycus, identifies the source of the hero’s ancestral cunning and motivates his visit as a ...
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The poem compares Odysseus with Heracles through shared epithets and exploits (including catabasis and archery), but the Heracles paradigm is discredited by Heracles’ murder of his guest-friend Iphitus. The vignette of Odysseus’ naming by his grandfather, Autolycus, identifies the source of the hero’s ancestral cunning and motivates his visit as a ...
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1953
Among the post-homeric traditions of Odysseus' wanderings the most persistent and circumstantial group is that which places such decisive adventures as the visits to Circe and the underworld in Italy. His wanderings were indeed located at various times in many other parts of the Mediterranean and even beyond it, but none of these locations was felt in ...
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Among the post-homeric traditions of Odysseus' wanderings the most persistent and circumstantial group is that which places such decisive adventures as the visits to Circe and the underworld in Italy. His wanderings were indeed located at various times in many other parts of the Mediterranean and even beyond it, but none of these locations was felt in ...
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2009
HOMER TELLS US THAT ODYSSEUS spent seven years on the island of Ogygia pmmg for his home, a prisoner of the beautiful nymph Calypso. Through the intervention of the goddess Athena he is finally allowed to leave. At sea he encounters a fierce storm and the boat which he has built to make his escape is wrecked.
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HOMER TELLS US THAT ODYSSEUS spent seven years on the island of Ogygia pmmg for his home, a prisoner of the beautiful nymph Calypso. Through the intervention of the goddess Athena he is finally allowed to leave. At sea he encounters a fierce storm and the boat which he has built to make his escape is wrecked.
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Abstract The Choice of Odysseus reveals that the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics—tools for living developed in poetry—to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets turned to the Odyssey for narratives of recovery and aftermath ...
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