The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Malkin, Irad
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.
• Θέματα: Homer. > Odyssey.; Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature.; Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character); Trojan War.; Odyssey (Homer); Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.; Trojan War > Literature and the war.; Literature and society > Greece.; Ethnicity in literature.; Colonies in literature.; Civilization, Homeric.; Heroes in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.; Epic poetry, Greek.; Literature.; Literature and society.; Social conditions.; Mythen.; Terugkeer.; Etnische identiteit.; Koloni�en.; Oudheid.; Greece > Social conditions.; Greece.; Middellandse-Zeegebied.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : maps
• Βιβλιογραφία: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-313) and index.
• ISBN: 9780520920262; 0520920260; 0585129983; 9780585129983

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.