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Frank, Bernhard. "Homer's ODYSSEY." Explicator 58, no. 4 (January 2000): 179–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940009597035.

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Donlan, Walter, Homer, and Harold Bloom. "Homer's the Odyssey." Classical World 84, no. 1 (1990): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4350746.

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Rodger, Blake. "Unweaving Homer's Odyssey." Milton Quarterly 31, no. 4 (December 1997): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1094-348x.1997.tb00503.x.

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Moses, Carole. "Homer's The Odyssey." Explicator 64, no. 3 (March 2006): 130–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/expl.64.3.130-131.

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Mann, Rupert. "Seafaring Practice and Narratives in Homer's Odyssey." Antichthon 53 (2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ann.2019.2.

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AbstractIt is intrinsically plausible that the Odyssey, which freely uses realistic details of many aspects of life on and beside the sea, was informed by real seafaring experience. This paper corroborates that hypothesis. The first part catalogues parallels between details of Odyssean and real-world seafaring. Odyssean type-scenes in particular echo real practice. The second part argues that three larger episodes have real-world parallels—the visit to the Lotos Eaters anticipates incidents of sailors deserting in friendly ports; the escape from Skylla and Charybdis demonstrates a safe course through a turbulent strait, and the encounter with Ino / Leukothea foreshadows the contemporary phenomenon of a sensed presence during a crisis. The pattern of coincidence between the Odyssey and the real world of seafaring constitutes a cumulative argument that suggests that those episodes in particular, and the poem as a whole, was informed by that world—a conclusion with consequences both for our understanding of the poem, and for our knowledge of the early Mediterranean maritime.

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Jones, P. V. "The past in Homer's Odyssey." Journal of Hellenic Studies 112 (November 1992): 74–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/632153.

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The first section of this paper argues that Homer's description of the world of Ithaca as it existed before Odysseus ever left for Troy (henceforth ‘the pre-departure world’) is largely Homeric invention. The second section of the paper brings in the world of Ithaca during Odysseus' absence (henceforth ‘the intervening years’), which is also, for the most part, Homeric invention, and considers the literary function of this and the pre-departure world.At Poetics 1451a, Aristotle argues that Homer is superior to all other epic poets in his method of constructing an epic. The reason he gives is that Homer does not tell everything there is to tell about his subject, but centres his epic round a single action (μία πρᾶξις) and for the purpose of the telling selects only those incidents which make the other incidents ‘necessary or probable’ (cf. 1459a-b, where Aristotle gives examples of what he means from the Iliad).

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Waterhouse, Helen. "From Ithaca to the Odyssey." Annual of the British School at Athens 91 (November 1996): 301–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400016518.

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All references to Ithaca in ancient authors are in Homeric contexts. The BSA's excavations in the island, here summarized, have shown the importance throughout classical times of the shrines at Aëtos and Polis, indicated by the objects dedicated from many parts of the Greek world. Among these, the twelve tripod-lebetes found in the Polis Cave cannot be dissociated from the Phaeacian tripods given to Odysseus. It is suggested that the dedications preceded, and inspired, that part of the Odyssey, and that the importance of Odysseus in the Homeric poems reflects that of the cults at these shrines. Problems of transmission are considered, with a discussion of Homer's island geography and pre-colonial routes to the West.

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Dobbs, Darrell. "Reckless Rationalism and Heroic Reverence in Homer's Odyssey." American Political Science Review 81, no. 2 (June 1987): 491–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1961963.

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A decision-theoretic analysis of the central incident of Homer's Odyssey reveals the insufficiency of rational calculation as a guide for political prudence. Surprisingly, the poet distinguishes between two rational and formally identical calculations in no uncertain terms; he condemns one as utter recklessness and praises the other as consummate wisdom. I maintain that this discrepancy is neither an artifact of sloppy editorial patchwork nor the result of a “homeric nod” but instead points toward a politically significant distinction as yet obscured by a merely rationalistic perspective. The recklessness of Odysseus' crewmen, who deliberately slaughter sacred cattle to forestall starvation, consists in their rationalistic transgression of the limits of reason. These limits are most evident in the defiance of commensurability that characterizes the sacred. The wisdom of Odysseus, by contrast, is manifest in his learning to temper reason with respect for the sacred. By virtue of reverence, Odysseus wins his struggle to preserve his psychê, home and regime.

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Dobel, J. "Mortal Leadership in Homer's Odyssey." Public Integrity 8, no. 3 (June 1, 2006): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/pin1099-9922080303.

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Harris, Maxine. "Homer's odyssey: A psychological journey." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 46, no. 4 (December 1986): 289–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01250403.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Homer's Odyssey"

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Clark, D. "Studies in Odyssey 13-24." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384417.

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Makrinos, Antonios. "Eustathius' commentary on Homer's "Odyssey" (Ch. 1379-1397)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445266/.

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Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey is preserved in two manuscripts (Parisinus Graecus 2702 and Marcianus Graecus 460). The latest edition of the work by G Stallbaum in two volumes (1:1825, 2 1826) is a printed reproduction of the first edition by N Maioranus in 1550 which was the first attempt of comparative study of the two manuscripts. Since then, there has been no complete edition based on the scientific comparison of both manuscripts and although Stallbaum's edition corrects some minor editorial mistakes, it does not offer a text based on a full study of both manuscripts furthermore, it preserves a substantial number of mistakes and it does not provide the reader with neither an apparatus criticus or testimonia. Additionally, there are neither comments nor any translating remarks which could help the understanding of the text The aim of my research is to accomplish a comparative study of both manuscripts of Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey and to provide a full edition of a sample of text (chapters 1379-1397). Hence, my PhD thesis is divided in three parts: the introduction, the text and the fontes and testimonia. The introduction is divided in five chapters. 1 The first chapter provides background information on Eustathius' life and writings. 2. In the second chapter I discuss the chronological order of Eustathius' Commentaries on the Iliad and the Odyssey. 3. The third chapter is a complete comparative study of the codices there is an analytical description of both codices (treating matters like the use of ink, the marginal notes, the information acquired in the first and last pages) and a comparative examination of their physical features the combination of the external evidence together with a short description of the history of the manuscripts and an evaluation of their quality provide the reader with some useful conclusions on their relationship (including a stemma of the codices and the suggestion for an Archetype theory). 4. The fourth chapter treats the subject of Eustathius as a commentator and it deals with problems like his interpretative method and terminology and his allegorical interpretative strategy 5 In the fifth chapter, there is the identification of Eustathius' sources. 6. And finally in the sixth chapter, there is a short discussion of Eustathius' style and language. The introduction is followed by the edition of the text of Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (1379-1397), with an apparatus criticus based on the comparative study of the manuscripts, the editio princeps and Stallbaum's edition. The edition of the text also provides the reader with testimonia together with some comments and translating remarks on the most problematic passages.

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Lebowitz, Willy. "Complex unity "self" and deliberation in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1576.

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Holt, Timothy James. "Setting as a poetic device to enhance character in the apologos of Homer's Odyssey." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1303.

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Richards, Francesca Maria. "'Dangerous creatures' : selected children' versions of Homer's Odyssey in English, 1699-2014." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11522/.

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This thesis considers how the Odyssey was adapted for children, as a specific readership, in English literature 1699-2014. It thus traces both the emergence of children’s literature as a publishing category and the transformation of the Odyssey into a tale of adventure – a perception of the Odyssey which is still widely accepted today (and not only among children) but which is not, for example, how Aristotle understood the poem. I explore case studies from three different points in the development of children’s literature, and in the development of the Odyssey as a tale of adventure, and connect them to broader cultural attitudes to children and to classical literature. The first, the successful translation of François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon’s Les aventures de Télémaque (The Adventures of Telemachus, 1699) illustrates the clash of the Odyssey with contemporary discourse on literature and education. I then turn to Charles Lamb’s The Adventures of Ulysses (1808) – a text that was at the heart of Romantic cultural upheavals and the commercial development of children’s literature, and which responded directly to Fénelon. Lamb’s work transformed the way the Homeric poem would engage with children by focusing on the fantastic adventures of Odysseus, rather than Telemachus, as Fénelon had done. The nineteenth-century shift in the critical reaction to Lamb’s work, and to the notion of reading adventure for recreational purposes, would eventually see The Adventures of Ulysses become a foundational text for future generations of Odysseys for children, and indeed in the reception of the Odyssey more generally (Lamb’s version was foundational for Joyce, for example). The final part of the thesis explores how Lamb’s influence is still operational in a new generation of texts that use subaltern voices in an apparently antagonistic approach to the poem. The thesis argues that the children’s texts considered, which are often treated as marginal, both as classical receptions and as children’s literature, need to be brought to the core of classical studies.

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Christodoulos, Zekas. "The language of the gods : oblique communication and divine persuasion in Homer's 'Odyssey' /." St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/862.

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Wilson, Jeffrey Dirk. "Homer's paradigm of being a philosophical reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Zekas, Christodoulos. "The language of the gods : oblique communication and divine persuasion in Homer's Odyssey." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/862.

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Often praised for its sophistication in the narrator- and character-text, the Odyssey is regarded as the ultimate epic of a warrior’s much-troubled nostos. As a corollary of both its theme and the polytropia of the main hero, the poem explores extensively the motifs of secrecy and disguise. Apart from the lying tales of Odysseus, one important, albeit less obvious, example of the tendency to secrecy and disguise is the exchanges between the gods, which constitute a distinct group of speeches that have significant implications for the action of the poem. The aim of this dissertation is to study the divine dialogues of the Odyssey from the angle of communication and persuasion. Employing findings from narratology, discourse analysis, and oral poetics, and through close readings of the Homeric text, I argue that the overwhelming majority of these related passages have certain characteristics, whose common denominator is obliqueness. Apart from Helius’ appeal to Zeus (Chapter 2), distinctive in its own narratorial rendition, the rest of the dialogues, namely Hermes’ message-delivery to Calypso (Prologue), the two divine assemblies (Chapter 1), plus the exchanges of Zeus with Poseidon (Chapter 2) and Athena (Epilogue) conform to set patterns of communication. Within this framework, interlocutors strongly tend towards concealment and partiality. They make extensive use of conversational implicatures, shed light only on certain sides of the story while suppressing others, and present feigned or even exaggerated arguments in order to persuade their addressee. Direct confrontation is in principle avoided, and even when it does occur, it takes a rather oblique form. In this communicative scheme, the procedure of decision-making is not clear-cut, and the concept of persuasion is fluid and hidden behind the indirect and subtle dialogic process.

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Turner, Amanda. "Across the Sea's Broad Back: Interpreting the Role of Homer's Women in Odysseus' Quest for Ithaka." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/534.

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Thesis advisor: Dayton Haskin
Homer's Odyssey is a foundational work for the western cultural and literary tradition. It has been translated into English many times over, which reflects a certain enduring relevance of the work and its characters. This thesis examines twelve or so English translations of the Odyssey, from those of Alexander Pope and George Chapman to the modern works of Robert Fagles and Robert Fitzgerald, in their interpretations of specific moments where the hero interacts with Nausikaa, Kalypso, Athena, and Penélopê. Traditionally, although the women of the Odyssey are considered to be active and relevant to Odysseus' journey, they also pose considerable danger to his quest for Ithaka. However, by juxtaposing and comparing various translations from different time periods, we enrich our understanding of the astounding agency these women demonstrate in facilitating the hero's return. As opposed to mere tools that Odysseus utilizes as a means to an end, these women actively interfere in his journey to ensure his safety and bring to fruition the ultimate goal of restoring order on Ithaka
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Offermann, Ursula. "Lebendige Kommunikation die Verwandlung des Odysseus in Homers Odyssee als kognitiv-emotives Hörerkonzept." München Iudicium, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2897341&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Books on the topic "Homer's Odyssey"

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Cooper, Gwen. Homer's Odyssey. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2009.

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Homer. Homer's Odyssey. New York: Garland, 1987.

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Homer's The odyssey. Piscataway, N.J: Research & Education Association, 1994.

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Wood, Florence. Homer's secret odyssey. Stroud: History Press, 2011.

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Homer's The odyssey. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway, 2013.

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Reeves, James. The voyage of Odysseus: Homer's Odyssey. New York: Bedrick/Blackie, 1986.

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Oswald, Peter. Odysseus: Based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. London: Oberon Books, 1999.

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Baldwin, Stanley P. CliffsNotes on Homer's The Odyssey. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, 2000.

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A companion to Homer's Odyssey. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2003.

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Heubeck, Alfred. A commentary on Homer's Odyssey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Homer's Odyssey"

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Alexander, Rachel K. "Memory and Mortality in Homer's Odyssey." In Political Theory on Death and Dying, 8–18. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003005384-2.

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Hagedorn, Jennifer. "Der Heros und die starken Frauen." In Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit, 237–58. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62562-0_12.

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ZusammenfassungThis paper takes a critical look at how the first German translation of Homer – Simon Schaidenreisser’s Odyssea from the sixteenth century – deals with the identity-forming categories of gender and divinity. The shifts in power structures within these categories, which occur in the transcultural target language-oriented translation, are examined in an intersectional analysis. For this purpose, the translation is contrasted with the Latin translation of the Odyssey by Raphael Volaterranus (1534), Schaidenreisser’s direct source, as well as with Homer’s Greek source text. The subjects of this analysis are the two powerful, antagonistic, female divinities of the Odyssey: Circe and Calypso. The paper illustrates how the depiction of the goddesses is reshaped in the Early Modern cultural context of the translation and how power structures shift within the narrative, resulting in a loss of power and intersectional complexity for the goddesses and a re-evaluation of the narrative’s hero, Ulysses.

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Willis, William H., and Klaus Maresch. "Homer, Odyssey." In The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis, 14–17. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-14299-7_3.

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Allen, N. J. "Homer’s simile." In Arjuna–Odysseus, 41–54. New York : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429294129-4.

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Race, William H. "Phaeacian Therapy in Homer’s Odyssey." In Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks, 47–66. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137398864_3.

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Neill, William. "Chapter 2. Translating Homer’s Odyssey." In Frae Ither Tongues, edited by Bill Findlay, 38–52. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/9781853597015-003.

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Wilson, Emily. "Epilogue." In Homer's Daughters, 279–98. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802587.003.0016.

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This chapter discusses the author’s own 2017 verse translation of the Odyssey as a feminist project. It argues that the injunctions by Lawrence Venuti and Antoine Berman to ‘foreignize’ in translation are more questionable in the case of male-authored and androcentric texts translated by women. Seven different strategies for feminist translation practices are proposed, and three passages from the Odyssey are discussed in detail: Helen’s ‘dog-face’ (Book 4), the hanging of the slave women (Book 22), and the reunion of Penelope and Odysseus (Book 23). In each case, the author’s translation is contrasted with those by male translators. The chapter ends with a discussion of the presentation of Robert Fagles’s Odyssey as a ‘politically correct’, proto-feminist translation, arguing that it is anything but.

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Richards, Francesca. "‘Cut down to size’." In Homer's Daughters, 231–48. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802587.003.0013.

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Adèle Geras’s Ithaka (2005) is a nuanced, multi-vocal depiction of events of the Odyssey, told through the eyes of Penelope and her (invented) young maid Klymene. The adventures of Odysseus are recounted, but in abridged form, and separated from the rest of the narrative as the subject of Penelope’s weaving. As a result, Geras not only highlights a perceived fallibility of the Odyssey in its privileging of the masculine voice (the idea of the poem as a flawed memorializer), but also helps us to understand how our own childhood literary encounters with the poem, filtered by this privilege, influence the way in which we have received the Odyssey. We are forced to view Ithaka not as a derivative, but as a powerful text in its own right that deftly navigates both the demanding conventions of writing for children and the politics of female representation.

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Hurst, Isobel. "Monologue and Dialogue." In Homer's Daughters, 177–92. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802587.003.0010.

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With the telling and retelling of stories by the narrator and characters, Homer’s Odyssey seems to invite the reworking of episodes and characters in new forms. Modern poets favour the dramatic monologue for entering into dialogue with a revered canonical text, often in an irreverent or subversive manner. Dramatic monologues are crucial to the revisionist mythology of women writers, often representing female characters who are peripheral and largely silent in classical texts in order to articulate some element of the story that was previously untold. Poets such as Linda Pastan, Carol Ann Duffy, Louise Glück, and Judith Kazantzis use monologue and dialogue to create reworkings of the Odyssey that relocate Odysseus to the margins of the story and question the importance of his heroic adventures.

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Theodorakopoulos, Elena. "Between Night and Day." In Homer's Daughters, 161–76. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802587.003.0009.

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This chapter offers a close reading of the final five poems in the German poet Barbara Köhler’s poem cycle Niemands Frau (Nobody’s Wife, 2007). It shows how Köhler’s interest in developing a feminine (non-linear, non-hierarchical) form of expression is particularly successful in evoking the atmosphere, if not the actual events, of Books 18–20 of the Odyssey. The essay argues that Köhler’s emphasis on uncertainty and ambiguity has a lot in common with recent feminist scholarship, which has drawn attention to the significance of Penelope’s uncertainty about Odysseus’ whereabouts and her own status. It also makes use of the simile of the nightingale in Book 19 of the Odyssey to show that already in the Homeric text Penelope is linked explicitly to both lyric and uncertainty.

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Conference papers on the topic "Homer's Odyssey"

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FLORENTINO DA SILVA, JONATHAN, JOÃO FRANCISCO PEREIRA NUNES JUNQUEIRA, CLÁUDIA DA SILVA LOPES ARAÚJO, and LARISSA DE JESUS MOTTA. "The Odyssey of Homer: a study based on the fear of the unknown." In XXIV Congresso de Iniciação Científica da UNICAMP - 2016. Campinas - SP, Brazil: Galoa, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.19146/pibic-2016-51910.

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