Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey
Title | Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Murnaghan |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2011-06-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1461734029 |
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of honor, privilege, status, and fame. Odysseus' identity is seen to be rooted in his family relations, geographical origins, control of property, participation in the social institutions of hospitality and marriage, past actions, and ongoing reputation. At the same time, Odysseus' dependence on the acknowledgement of others ensures attention to multiple viewpoints, which makes the Odyssey more than a simple celebration of one man's preeminence and accounts in part for the poem's vigorous afterlife. The theme of disguise, which relies on plausible lies, highlights the nature of belief and the power of falsehood and creates the mixture of realism and fantasy that gives the Odyssey its distinctive texture. The book contains a pioneering analysis of the role of Penelope and the questions of female agency and human limitation raised by the critical debate about when exactly she recognizes that Odysseus has come home.
The Disguised Guest
Title | The Disguised Guest PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas J. Stewart |
Publisher | Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
Title | An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2017-09-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0007545142 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.
The Wrath of Athena
Title | The Wrath of Athena PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Strauss Clay |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822630692 |
A complex study that argues that Athena's wrath is essential to both the structure and the theme of the Odyssey shedding light on the central theme of the relations between gods and men and revealing subtleties of narrative and ambiguities of character.
Homeric Conversation
Title | Homeric Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Beck |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Conversation in literature |
ISBN | 9780674019621 |
Deborah Beck argues that conversation should be considered a traditional Homeric type scene, alongside other types such as arrival, sacrifice and battle. She draws on linguitic work and oral aesthetics to describe typical conversational patterns that characterise a range of situations.
Eve of the Festival
Title | Eve of the Festival PDF eBook |
Author | Olga Levaniouk |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Greek |
ISBN | 9780674053359 |
Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication which provides the speakers with a coded way of exchanging their thoughts. At the core of the book is a detailed examination of several myths in the dialogue to understand what is being said and to what effect. The dialogue is interpreted as an exchange of performances which have for their occasion the eve of Apollo's festival and which amount to activating, and even enacting, the myth corresponding within the Odyssey to this ritual event. --Book Jacket.
Odyssey
Title | Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Homer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780198788805 |
Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.