Home or Away: Homecoming, Glory, and the Good Death in Homer's Odyssey

Autor:	William Rees
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Literature Literature and Literary Theory business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Homecoming Art Deconstruction Form of the Good Glory business Kleos media_common
Zdroj:	CounterText. 6:102-115
ISSN:	2056-4414 2056-4406
DOI:	10.3366/count.2020.0184
Popis:	This article examines the overlapping themes of the good death ( euthanasia), glory ( kleos), and homecoming ( nostos) as they are deployed in Homer's Odyssey. On both a thematic and a structural level, I argue that the text stages a confrontation between homecoming and glory – between death at home and death in battle – and that this tension is a sustaining force throughout the text. In contrast to the received interpretation that sees the Odyssey as a straightforward tale of nostalgia, I argue that in Homer's epic the relation to homecoming turns out to be surprising and complex – an event that is at once painfully desired and perpetually deferred.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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