The raft of Odysseus : the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey
The Raft of Odysseus looks at the fascinating intersection of traditional myth with an enthnographically-viewed Homeric world. Carol Dougherty argues that the resourcefulness of Odysseus as an adventurer on perilous seas served as an example to Homer's society which also had to adjust in inventive ways to turbulent conditions. The fantastic adventures of Odysseus act as a prism for the experiences of Homer's own listeners--traders, seafarers, storytellers, soldiers--and give us a glimpse into their own world of hopes and fears, 500 years after the Iliadic events were supposed to have happened
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : illustrations
9780195351453, 9781280833083, 9786610833085, 0195351452, 1280833084, 6610833087
320958320
Introduction: the ethnographic imagination of Homer's Odyssey
Ships and song
Poetic profit
Travel and song
A brave new world
Phaeacians and Phoenicians: overseas trade
Phaeacians and Cyclopes: overseas settlement
Phaeacians and Euboeans: Greeks overseas
Odysseus returned and Ithaca re-founded
Conclusion: from raft to bed
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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