How to End theOdyssey
| Autor: | Egbert J. Bakker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Trends in Classics. 12:48-68 |
| ISSN: | 1866-7481 1866-7473 |
| Popis: | This contribution discusses the plot of the Odyssey as a field of opposing forces shaping the ending of the poem: (i) the generic tension between folktale and epic; (ii) the fundamental ambiguity of the poem’s climactic event, the killing of the Suitors (justice or revenge?); and (iii) the antagonism between Zeus and Poseidon. On this basis two competing scenarios for the ending of the poem are proposed: amnesia and departure, the former viewing the theme of revenge on the human plane, the latter on the divine. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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