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How to End theOdyssey.
- Source :
- Trends in Classics; 2020, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p48-68, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This contribution discusses the plot of the Odyssey as a field of opposing forces shaping the ending of the poem: (i) the generic tension between folktale and epic; (ii) the fundamental ambiguity of the poem's climactic event, the killing of the Suitors (justice or revenge?); and (iii) the antagonism between Zeus and Poseidon. On this basis two competing scenarios for the ending of the poem are proposed: amnesia and departure, the former viewing the theme of revenge on the human plane, the latter on the divine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AMNESIA
AMBIGUITY
POETRY (Literary form)
JUDGES
REVENGE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18667473
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Trends in Classics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 145387450
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1515/tc-2020-0004