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The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity
Author
Title
The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity / Irad Malkin.
ISBN
0520211855
9780520211858
0585129983
9780585129983
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Physical Description
xiii, 331 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Summary
Irad Malkin contributes here to the current lively discussion of encounters among Greeks and non-Greeks. Through the prism of myths, he argues, notions of ethnicity and collective identity were articulated. Focussing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, he shows how these Return-myths influenced actual encounters during the time of early exploration and colonization in the western Mediterranean.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-313) and index.
Contents
1. Contexts and concepts
2. Sailing and colonizing in the Sea of Returns
3. Ithaca and the cult of Odysseus
4. The Odyssey's alternatives: ethnicity and colonization in Epirus
5. Pithekoussai, Odysseus, and the Etruscans
6. Odysseus and Italy: a peripheral vision of ethnicity
7. The other Nostoi: Nestor, Epeios, Philoktetes, Trojan Siris
8. The other Nostoi: Diomedes
Appendix: Homeric issues.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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