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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Contexts and Concepts
• 2. Sailing and Colonizing in the Sea of Returns
• 3. Ithaca and the Cult of Odysseus
• 4. The Odyssey's Alternatives: Ethnicity and Colonization in Epirus
• 5. Pithekoussai, Odysseus, and the Etruscans
• 6. Odysseus and Italy: A Peripheral Vision of Ethnicity
• 7. The Other Nostoi: Nestor, Epeios, Philoktetes, Trojan Siris
• 8. The Other Nostoi: Diomedes
• App. Homeric Issues.