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Memories of Odysseus : Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece /
This is a book about identity, about how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us in turn about Greek mentality and culture. It looks at voyagers and explorers, at travels in reality and in the mind, and shows what these reveal at key points in Greek history from the crea...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: Odysseus in Auschwitz Paul Cartledge
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Travellers and Frontier-men
- 1 The Return of Odysseus
- 2 Egyptian Voyages
- 3 The Invention of the Barbarian and an Inventory of the World
- 4 Greek Voyages
- 5 Roman Voyages
- Conclusion: Memories of Apollonius and the Name of Pythagoras
- Notes
- Index