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Two Papyrus Fragments Of The Odyssey, James Keenan Dec 2015

Two Papyrus Fragments Of The Odyssey, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

No abstract provided.


Antiquity Now: The Classical World In The Contemporary American Imagination, Thomas Jenkins Oct 2015

Antiquity Now: The Classical World In The Contemporary American Imagination, Thomas Jenkins

Thomas E Jenkins

Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception - including sexuality, politics, gender and ethnicity - this book explores the ideological motivations behind contemporary American allusions to the classical world. Ultimately, this kaleidoscope of receptions - from calls for marriage equality to examinations of gang violence to passionate pleas for peace (or war) - reveals a 'classical antiquity' that reconfigures itself daily, as modernity …


The Treatment Of Women By Achilles And Agamemnon, Erica M. Cosgrove Oct 2015

The Treatment Of Women By Achilles And Agamemnon, Erica M. Cosgrove

Student Research

No abstract provided.


"Go Back To Your Loom Dad": Weaving Nostos In The Twenty-First Century, Corinne Ondine Pache Aug 2015

"Go Back To Your Loom Dad": Weaving Nostos In The Twenty-First Century, Corinne Ondine Pache

Corinne Pache

For centuries writers and artists have adapted and transformed Homer's Odyssey in endlessly inventive and surprising ways. Yet the disposition of genders in the poem is seldom altered from its ancient pattern: a man leaves, a woman stays at home and waits until he returns. In her 2007 play, Current Nobody, Melissa Gibson departs from this conventional fidelity to the ancient narrative by rewriting the Odyssey as a twenty-first century family story with a wandering wife and a husband who is left behind. In Gibson's playful tragicomedy, Pen, a female war photographer, leaves her husband, Od, and daughter Tel …


The "Odyssey" In Athens: Myths Of Cultural Origins, Erwin Cook Aug 2015

The "Odyssey" In Athens: Myths Of Cultural Origins, Erwin Cook

Erwin F. Cook

A study in poetic interaction, The Odyssey in Athens explores the ways in which narrative structure and parallels within and between epic poems create or disclose meaning. Erwin F. Cook also broadens the scope of this intertextual approach to include the relationship of Homeric epic to ritual. Specifically he argues that the Odyssey achieved its form as a written text within the context of Athenian civic cults during the reign of Peisistratos.

Focusing on the prologue and the Apologoi (Books 9–12), Cook shows how the traditional Greek polarity between force and intelligence informs the Odyssean narrative at all levels of …


Introduction To The Iliad, Erwin F. Cook May 2015

Introduction To The Iliad, Erwin F. Cook

Erwin F. Cook

Sing of rage, Goddess, that bane of Akhilleus,Peleus' son, which caused untold pain for Akhaians,sent down throngs of powerful spirits to Aides, war-chiefs rendered the prize of dogs and everysort of bird.

Edward McCrorie’s new translation of Homer’s classic epic of the Trojan War captures the falling rhythms of a doomed Troy. McCrorie presents the sundry epithets and resonant symbols of Homer's verse style and remains as close to the Greek's meaning as research allows.

The work is an epic with a flexible contemporary feel to it, capturing the wide-ranging tempos of the original. It underscores the honor of soldiers …


The Natures Of Monsters And Heroes, Vanessa Nikolovska May 2015

The Natures Of Monsters And Heroes, Vanessa Nikolovska

The Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Research

Around the late eighth or early seventh century B.C., a poet, known to later ages as Homer, composed two epic poems that tell the tales of the Trojan War, The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Iliad tells the story of the rage of Achilles, the great Greek warrior, while The Odyssey tells the story of the coming home of Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, from the Trojan War. A study of both epics reveals that constructs portraying various values, such as the characteristics of heroes, have remained the same from the times of ancient Greece to the present day. …


Spoiling The Egyptians: An Introduction To Resuscitating Paideia, Helena Nellie Sullivan Mar 2015

Spoiling The Egyptians: An Introduction To Resuscitating Paideia, Helena Nellie Sullivan

Resuscitating Paideia: Reading Literature for Wisdom

In this article, Helena Sullivan shares the mission statement and vision for the journal Resuscitating Paideia. She also explains how reading literature for wisdom looks as it's applied to a particular text, in this case, Homer's Odyssey. More specifically, she examines Book V of that epic, in which Odysseus leaves the goddess Kalypso.


Homeric Reciprocities, Erwin F. Cook Mar 2015

Homeric Reciprocities, Erwin F. Cook

Erwin F. Cook

A modified version of Marshall Sahlins’s model of reciprocity, which maps the modes of reciprocity across kinship distance, helps elucidate reciprocity in Homer. With important qualifications, Homeric reciprocity can also elucidate the social realities of Archaic Greece. There are three primary modes of Homeric reciprocity: general, or altruistic giving, balanced exchange, and negative taking. The model for general reciprocity is family relationships, and it characterizes a ruler’s relationship with the community, where it masks the reality that the upward flow of chiefly tribute exceeds the downward flow of the ruler’s largesse. Balanced reciprocity is practiced between peers within the same …


The Mythological Background Of Homer: The Eternal Return Of Killing Dragons, Erwin Cook Mar 2015

The Mythological Background Of Homer: The Eternal Return Of Killing Dragons, Erwin Cook

Erwin F. Cook

Myth, according to a well known formulation by Walter Burkert, “is a traditional tale with secondary, partial reference to something of collective importance” (1979: 23). Andrew von Hendy, who declares Burkert’s definition the “gold standard” in classical studies, offers a Marxist reformulation, so that myth “is traditional narrative with a high degree of ideological saturation” (2002: 269, 277). This definition accords with the fact that muthos, the Greek word that most closely approximates myth, also designates “story” generally, and, as we might expect in an oral culture, “speech” (its meaning of “fiction” is post-Homeric). It also allows us to sidestep …


All Shall Fade: Homer's Foreshadowing Of The End Of The Heroic Age In The Iliad, Sabrina Hardy Feb 2015

All Shall Fade: Homer's Foreshadowing Of The End Of The Heroic Age In The Iliad, Sabrina Hardy

The Kabod

Homer's epic poems are filled with demi-gods and great heroes. However, in The Iliad, Homer undermines the triumph of these heroes by foreshadowing the end of their age and the forthcoming time of mortals. This essay examines how Achilleus' shield, Nestor's longevity, Paris' effeminate nature, and Odysseus' reliance on craftiness rather than physical prowess all indicate the rapid advance of the age of mortal men.


Structure As Interpretation In The Homeric Odyssey, Erwin F. Cook Feb 2015

Structure As Interpretation In The Homeric Odyssey, Erwin F. Cook

Erwin F. Cook

No abstract provided.


Structure As Interpretation In The Homeric Odyssey, Erwin F. Cook Feb 2015

Structure As Interpretation In The Homeric Odyssey, Erwin F. Cook

Erwin F. Cook

No abstract provided.


Epiphany In The Homeric Hymn To Demeter And The Odyssey, Erwin F. Cook Feb 2015

Epiphany In The Homeric Hymn To Demeter And The Odyssey, Erwin F. Cook

Erwin F. Cook

In the following essay I investigate the Odyssey’s sustained engagement with the theme of epiphany. Within the poem’s own narrative, the central epiphanic moment is the recognition scene between Odysseus and Penelope, and it resonates powerfully with a series of other such moments throughout the poem, beginning with Athene’s epiphany to Telemakhos in Book 1. But I also hope to show that these Odyssean scenes resonate just as powerfully with Demeter’s epiphanies in the Homeric hymn to the goddess.


The Contemporary Relevance Of The Iliad, Erwin Cook Jan 2015

The Contemporary Relevance Of The Iliad, Erwin Cook

Erwin F. Cook

I initially balked at the request to talk about the contemporary relevance of Homeric poetry. I did so because I am of the camp that maintains great art does not need to be defended on these terms, which is to say its skill, beauty, and profundity give it all the relevance it needs to be of lasting relevance. But I do recognize that my justification, which also keeps me from studying ancient graffiti and medieval doorknockers, assumes that at some level of remove there are enduring qualities to these works that do indeed, and will always, give them contemporary relevance. …


Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 2: Sets Of Odyssey Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 2: Sets Of Odyssey Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This revised chart contains a summary list of the 808 sets of duplicate line repetitions in the Odyssey of Homer that are based on an initial appearance in the Odyssey. The data is derived from my computerized analysis of text and lemmatization information contained in xml files downloaded from the WordHoard (Chicago Homer) website. My associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 4: All Odyssey Repeated Lines" has the same information, but sorted by the 2,650 actual repetitions that appear in the Odyssey. I have also posted a similar pair of papers cataloging repetitions based on initial lines in the …


Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 1: Sets Of Iliad Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 1: Sets Of Iliad Base Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This revised chart contains a summary list of the 1167 sets of duplicate line repetitions in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer that are based on an initial appearance in the Iliad. The data is derived from my computerized analysis of text and lemmatization information contained in xml files downloaded from the WordHoard (Chicago Homer) website. My associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 3: All Iliad Repeated Lines" has the same information, but sorted by the 2575 actual repetitions that appear in the Iliad. I have also posted a similar pair of papers cataloging repetitions within the Odyssey. All …


Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 3: All Iliad Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 3: All Iliad Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This chart contains the same duplicate line repetition information as the associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 1: Sets of Iliad Base Lines", but here sorted by and showing all 2,575 repeated lines in canonical order. Each line reference shows all the other repetitions in both the Iliad and Odyssey that are associated with that particular Iliad line.


Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 4: All Odyssey Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2014

Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 4: All Odyssey Repeated Lines, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This chart contains the same duplicate line repetition information as the associated paper "Homeric Epic Repeated Lines Chart 2: Sets of Odyssey Base Lines", but here sorted by and showing all 2,650 repeated lines in canonical order. Each line reference shows all the other repetitions in the Iliad and Odyssey that are associated with that particular Odyssey line.