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Reading the Odyssey: a guide to Homer’s narrative

A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey—and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer’s masterpiece like no other. It combines a cultural and intellectual history of the epic with an in-depth e...

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Main Author: Grethlein, Jonas (Author)
Other Authors: Stolfa, Sabrina (Translator)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Princeton Oxford Princeton University Press [2024]
DOI:10.1515/9780691210995
Subjects:
Homerus / Odyssea
Online Access:Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691210995?locatt=mode:legacy
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9780691210995
Verlag, Cover: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691210995/original
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Author Notes:Jonas Grethlein ; translated by Sabrina Stolfa
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Telemachy: Tales of the Father
  • 3 From Listener to Narrator: Odysseus at the Phaeacian Court
  • 4 Polyphemus: Narrative, Art and History
  • 5 Homecoming, Recognition and Narrative
  • 6 Ethics and Narrative
  • 7 Narrating the Ending
  • 8 Epilogue: Reflexivity and Experience
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index
  • A note on the type

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