The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity /

• Main Author: Malkin, Irad
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.
• Subjects: 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.

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...