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The odyssey : a new translation, contexts, criticism /

Title:
The odyssey : a new translation, contexts, criticism /
Author:
Homer, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Contexts. Maps: The world of "The Odyssey" ; The Aegean and Asia Minor ; Mainland Greece ; The Peloponnese. -- Sources and analogues: From "The Iliad" / Homer ; From the "Theogony" / Hesiod ; From the "Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo" / Anonymous ; Fragment 16 / Sappho ; From "Nemean 7" / Pindar ; From "Hippias Minor" / Plato ; Selected scholia on "The Odyssey" ; From the "Poetics" / Aristotle ; Heroides 1 / Ovid ; From "The Contest of Homer and Hesiod" / Anonymous ; From "On the Sublime" / Pseudo-Longinus ; From the "True History" / Lucian ; From "The Library" / Pseudo-Apollodorus ; From "Homeric Problems" / Heraclitus ; From "Cave of the Nymphs" / Porphyry ; Summary of the "Telegony" / Proclus ; Story 95 ; Story 96 / Hyginus. -- Post-classical reception: From "Inferno" / Dante Alighieri ; The lotos-eaters ; Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Penelope / Dorothy Parker ; An ancient gesture / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Odysseus to Telemachus / Joseph Brodksy ; Ithaka / C. P. Cavafy ; From "The Odyssey: A Stage Version" / Derek Walcott ; Penelope's song / Louise Glück ; Penelope / Carol Ann Duffy ; The wife of the man of many wiles / A. E. Stallings ; Elpenor in Hades / Rhina Espaillat ; From "The Penelopiad" / Margaret Atwood ; On any windy day / Hannah Brown ; Telemachus / Ocean Vuong ; From "Circe" / Madeline Miller ; We were all Odysseus in those days / Amorak Huey -- Criticism. Composition by theme and the "Metis" of the "Odyssey" / Laura M. Slatkin -- The justice of Poseidon / Egbert J. Bakker -- Odysseus as slave: the ritual of domination and social death in Homeric society / Patrice Rankine -- Epic ways of killing a woman: gender and transgression in "Odyssey" 22.465-72 / Laurel Fulkerson -- "Reverse similes" and sex roles in the "Odyssey" / Helen P. Foley.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
PA4025.A5 W563 2020 – Available