Cheating your way back: Odysseus' return to a real world

Cheating your way back: Odysseus' return to a real world

In this article I argue that the considerable contribution of cheating to the development of the narrative of Homer’s Odyssey (ca. 700 BCE) is the consequence of the epic’s chaotic and precipitous start – so precipitous in fact that the actorial motivation and the narratorial motivation (De Jong 200...

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Main Author: Blankenborg, Ronald
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity 2018
Subjects:
Medicine, Plants, Vegetables, Fruits, Disease, Magic, Religion
Greek mythology
Oresteia, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra
disbelief, iamata, epigraphic evidence, literary evidence, divine punishment, incubation
Iphigénie, Iphigénie en Tauride, sacrifice, protéleia, prémices
Asclepius, Justin martyr, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Contra Celsum, euhemerism
Hercules; Steve Moore; comics
myth;counterfeit;origami; repetition
Agamemnon, hero, Kassandra, Amyklai, Zeus
Asclepius, testimonials, medical treatment, Aristides
Heracles’ private life; Love; Family; Man /woman; Mythic parallels
greek mythology
Agamemnon, history, rhetoric, politics
Ηρακλής; Γέλα; Ακράγας; Ρόδος; Κρήτη
Snake, ambiguity, health in antiquity, healing cult, symbolism, ancient medicine, snake imagery, manipulation
Online Access:https://pasithee.library.upatras.gr/electra/article/view/2930

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