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Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic Online, 2019
The topic is the burial of the corpse of Odysseus at Aeaea in the Telegony. I argue that in the Cyclic epic the corpse is buried at an Aeaea localized in Italy.
J. Burgess
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The topic is the burial of the corpse of Odysseus at Aeaea in the Telegony. I argue that in the Cyclic epic the corpse is buried at an Aeaea localized in Italy.
J. Burgess
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2022
In his Parekbolai on the Odyssey, the twelfth-century polymath Eustathios of Thessalonike often uses the figure of Odysseus as a starting point to meditate upon crucial themes such as the role of poetry, the duties of the exegete and the qualities of the ideal rhetor. The first part of this chapter focuses on one such passage, where Eustathios analyses
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In his Parekbolai on the Odyssey, the twelfth-century polymath Eustathios of Thessalonike often uses the figure of Odysseus as a starting point to meditate upon crucial themes such as the role of poetry, the duties of the exegete and the qualities of the ideal rhetor. The first part of this chapter focuses on one such passage, where Eustathios analyses
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Six Faces of Odysseus: Genre and Characterization Strategies in Four Late Antique Greek “Epyllia”
Symbolae Osloenses, 2019In the first line of the new Odyssey translation (2017) by Emily Wilson “Ἄνδρα […] πολύτροπον” is translated as “a complicated man”, and, for sure, Odysseus is one of the most fascinating, multifarious and complicated characters of Greek literature. This
Berenice Verhelst
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Greek Literature, 2019
FROM the moment Odysseus awakens on the Ithakan shore until his final reunion with Laertes, the hero's return home is an exercise in disguise and revelation, in the course of which he equips himself with a number of fictional biographies and, twice, with
Olga Levaniouk
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FROM the moment Odysseus awakens on the Ithakan shore until his final reunion with Laertes, the hero's return home is an exercise in disguise and revelation, in the course of which he equips himself with a number of fictional biographies and, twice, with
Olga Levaniouk
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SPECULATIVE FICTION, ECOCRITICISM, AND THE WANDERINGS OF ODYSSEUS
Ramus, 2019While it is dangerous to generalize about so vast a field as Homeric scholarship, it is perhaps safe to say that before the 1970s interpretation of the Wanderings of Odysseus was dominated by the larger question of the Odyssey’s moral and theological ...
Samuel. Cooper
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ODYSSEUS AND HIS BED. FROM SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS TO THING THEORY IN HOMER
Classical Quarterly, 2019Things in Homer cannot complain about a lack of attention. Nearly forty years ago, Jasper Griffin, in response to the oralist emphasis on composition and formulaic language, drew our attention to the many significant objects populating the Iliad and the ...
J. Grethlein
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CLASS TENSIONS IN THE GAMES OF HOMER: EPEIUS, EURYALUS, ODYSSEUS, AND IROS
Bulletin of The Institute of Classical Studies, 2018Three contest scenes in Homer reveal a thematic concern with class tension: the two contests with Epeius in Iliad 23, Odysseus's encounter with Euryalus in Odyssey 8, and Odysseus's boxing match with Iros in Odyssey 18.
T. Scanlon
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Odysseus and the Suitors’ Relatives
Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic Online, 2019The Odyssey ends with a battle between Odysseus’s household and the suitors’ relatives. This article first defamiliarizes the presence and course of the battle by reviewing relevant mythographic and folkloristic comparanda.
J. L. Ready
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1998
Abstract At length we were at the shore where lay the ship. Promptly we launched her into the divine sea, stepped the mast, made sail and went: not forgetting the sheep, though our hearts were very low and big tears rained down from our eyes. Behind the darkprowed vessel came a favourable wind, our welcomed way-fellow, whom we owed to
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Abstract At length we were at the shore where lay the ship. Promptly we launched her into the divine sea, stepped the mast, made sail and went: not forgetting the sheep, though our hearts were very low and big tears rained down from our eyes. Behind the darkprowed vessel came a favourable wind, our welcomed way-fellow, whom we owed to
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Angelaki, 2014
:This essay provides a reading of Steve McQueen's critically acclaimed movie Hunger, which tells the story of the hunger strike of Bobby Sands in light of contemporary hunger strikes around the world and especially in Guantanamo (ongoing at the time of writing).
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:This essay provides a reading of Steve McQueen's critically acclaimed movie Hunger, which tells the story of the hunger strike of Bobby Sands in light of contemporary hunger strikes around the world and especially in Guantanamo (ongoing at the time of writing).
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