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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823675903321

Autore

Dougherty Carol

Titolo

The raft of Odysseus : the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey / / Carol Dougherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770503-0

1-280-83308-4

0-19-535145-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

883.01

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Geography, Ancient, in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Ocean travel in literature

Ethnology in literature

Commerce in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey; I. Setting Sail; II. Phaeacia, Gateway to the Ethnographic Imagination; III. Home at Last; Conclusion: From Raft to Bed; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Raft of Odysseus offers an interpretation of Homer's Odyssey rooted in the issues of overseas travel, trade and settlement that dominated the early archaic period in Greece.