Eve of the festival: making myth in Odyssey 19

Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication which provides the speakers with a coded...

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1. Verfasser: Levaniouk, Olga 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. Center for Hellenic Studies 2010
Cambridge, MA Distributed by Harvard University Press
London
Schriftenreihe:Hellenic studies 46
Zusammenfassung:Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication which provides the speakers with a coded way of exchanging their thoughts. At the core of the book is a detailed examination of several myths in the dialogue to understand what is being said and to what effect. The dialogue is interpreted as an exchange of performances which have for their occasion the eve of Apollo's festival and which amount to activating, and even enacting, the myth corresponding within the Odyssey to this ritual event. --Book Jacket
Beschreibung:x, 368 pages 24 cm
ISBN:9780674053359
0674053354

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