So I’ve been doing more research, and I found something that kinda builds upon my last post (about Odysseus giving up his immortality, the heroic paradox, etc.) In Nancy Sultan’s Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, the wife of a hero is extremely important, as her mourning perpetuates his glory after his […]
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Odysseus the hero, continued
Published by Erin November 21st, 2006 in Homeric World and Odysseus. 2 Commentsa conglomeration of things…
Published by Erin October 9th, 2006 in Homeric World, Translation and Themes in ODYSSEY. 4 CommentsFirst, I have to say this blog is very handy when you’re out of town!
In the translation, I had difficulty with lines 193-4. I understand it’s something about leaves on the ground (appropriate for this season!), but I just can’t seem to put all of the words together.
To echo Midori’s post, I, too, was amused […]
I thought I would just post a few musings/questions I wanted to ask about the weekend’s readings on the blog instead of taking up class time.
Book 11, line 235 on = Is it just by chance that the first of the illustrious ladies that Odysseus presents was a lover of Poseidon? I found it rather ironic; perhaps she was first […]
It is interesting to compare Odysseus’ mourning in different sections of the book. In chapter 10, which we translated, Odysseus weeps upon hearing that he must go down to the underworld, then once he is satisfied, asks how he should undertake this adventure and prepares to go. However, when on the island of […]
Article from BBC, 09/05
Published by Midori September 4th, 2006 in Homeric World, Exploration and Archaeology. 1 Comment
Search ‘locates’ Homer’s Ithaca
I had found this article last year (I can’t believe I was able to find it again!) and thought it was interesting. It states that an amateur archaeologist has claimed to have found Ithaca and that the explanation of the region’s current geography is due to subsequent earthquakes that have filled in the channel between […]
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