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9780195130362

The Raft of Odysseus The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195130362

  • ISBN10:

    0195130367

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-05
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Carol Dougherty is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey 3(16)
I. Setting Sail
Ships and Song
19(19)
Poetic Profit
38(23)
Travel and Song
61(20)
II. Phaeacia, Gateway to the Ethnographic Imagination
A Brave New World
81(21)
Phaeacians and Phoenicians: Overseas Trade
102(20)
Phaeacians and Cyclopes: Overseas Settlement
122(21)
Phaeaciasn and Euboeans: Greeks Overseas
143(18)
III. Home at Last
Odysseus Returned and Ithaca Re-founded
161(16)
Conclusion: From Raft to Bed 177(8)
Notes 185(38)
Bibliography 223(14)
Index 237

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