Reading the Odyssey
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Selected Interpretive Essays

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Selected Interpretive Essays

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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.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691214146
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Crítica literaria antigua y clásica
• INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED AND CITED •
Aelian
On the Nature of Animals
6.24, 236n34
9.12, 236n37
Aeschines
Against Ctesiphon
11, 34n7
Aeschylus
Prometheus Unbound
Fragment 196Nauck2, 42
Alcman
Fragment 5Page, 234n27
Fragment 3Page 64, 73, 203n9
Apollonius of Rhodes
Argonautica
4.1322, 148n19
Aristotle
Poetics
1450a4-5, 168
1455b16-23, 10n16
1455b24-1456a10, 164n7
Politics
1256a30-40, 41
1267b30ff., 53n92
Rhetoric
1358a14-17, 171n23
1397b12-29, 171n23
1400b5, 148
Fragment 561Rose, 113
Athenaeus
Deipnosophistai [Dining Sophists]
7.36 (290E), 215n39
Augustine
Confessions
2.3, 149
Cicero
De Natura Deorum
3.58, 149
Dio Chrysostom
Orationes
10.29-30, 36n16
Diodorus Siculus
Library
2.56, 48n74
Diogenes Laertius
Lives of the Philosophers
6.34, 36n16
6.72-73, 36n16
Empedocles
Purifications
Fragment 128Diels-Kranz, 36n...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgment
  8. Introduction: Seth L. Schein
  9. Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey: A Study of Religious and Mythical Meanings: Pierre Vidal-Naquet
  10. Death with Two Faces: Jean-Pierre Vernant
  11. The Adventures in the Odyssey: Karl Reinhardt
  12. Penelope and the Suitors: Uvo Hölscher
  13. Dread Goddess Revisited: Michael N. Nagler
  14. Penelope’s Perspective: Character from Plot: Nancy Felson-Rubin
  15. The Refusal of Odysseus: Jean-Pierre Vernant
  16. The Song of the Sirens: Pietro Pucci
  17. Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey: Charles Segal
  18. Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey: Laura M. Slatkin
  19. Biblography
  20. Contributors
  21. Index of Passages Discussed and Cited
  22. General Index
  23. About the Author