Raft of Odysseus The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey

Name: Raft of Odysseus The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey
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ISBN: 9780195130362

ISBN-10: 0195130367

ISBN-13: 9780195130362

Edition: 2001

Authors: Carol Dougherty

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The Raft of Odysseus looks at the fascinating intersection of traditional myth with an enthnographically-viewed Homeric world. Carol Dougherty argues that the resourcefulness of Odysseus as an adventurer on perilous seas served as an example to Homer's society which also had to adjust in inventive ways to turbulent conditions. The fantastic adventures of Odysseus act as a prism for the experiences of Homer's own listeners--traders, seafarers, storytellers, soldiers--and give us a glimpse into their own world of hopes and fears, 500 years after the Iliadic events were supposed to have happened. In the course of her argument, Dougherty makes liberal use of what we know about Mycenean and…

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/5/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments


The Raft of Odysseus


Introduction The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey



Setting Sail



Ships and Song



Poetic Profit



Travel and Song



Phaeacia, Gateway to the Ethnographic Imagination



A Brave New World



Phaeacians and Phoenicians: Overseas Trade



Phaeacians and Cyclopes: Overseas Settlement



Phaeacians and Euboeans: Greeks Overseas



Home at Last



Odysseus Returned and Ithaca Re-Founded


Conclusion: from Raft to Bed


Notes


Bibliography


Index