Reading the Odyssey
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Aeneid
Aeolus
Aeschylus
Allusion
Amphimedon
Apologue
Argonautica
Biography
Calypso (mythology)
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Classics
Clytemnestra
Comparative literature
Cyclops
Demodocus (Odyssey character)
Diction
Epic Cycle
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic poetry
Epithet
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Eumaeus
Eurycleia
G. (novel)
Greek tragedy
Gregory Nagy
Hephaestus
Hesiod
Homer
Iliad
In Death
Irony
J. (newspaper)
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Laertes
Marcel Detienne
Meleager
Menelaus
Milman Parry
Misery (novel)
Muse
Mythology
N. (novella)
Narration
Narrative
Nekyia
Nereus
Nostoi
Odysseus
Oral poetry
Oxford University Press
Patroclus
Peleus
Phemius
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Poetry
Polyphemus
Pun
S. (Dorst novel)
Scheria
Simile
Sophocles
Superiority (short story)
Telemachus
Telemachy
The Other Hand
The Swineherd
The Various
Theogony
Tiresias
Trickster
Trojan War
Product details
- ISBN 9780691044392
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic's distinctive conception of heroism. In the introduction, Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches, some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pietro Pucci, and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin, two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler, and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher, Karl Reinhardt, and Vernant.
The result is a collection that juxtaposes older, often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them.
Seth L. Schein is Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at the University of California, Davis. His books include The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's "Iliad" and The Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form.
