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The raft of Odysseus : the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey /

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 invent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dougherty, Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey
  • Ships and song
  • Poetic profit
  • Travel and song
  • A brave new world
  • Phaeacians and Phoenicians: overseas trade
  • Phaeacians and Cyclopes: overseas settlement
  • Phaeacians and Euboeans: Greeks overseas
  • Odysseus returned and Ithaca re-founded
  • Conclusion: from raft to bed.