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Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. Within the wider area of the interaction between linguistic analysis and literary interpretation he works mainly on the language, poetics and interpretation of the Homeric poems. He has lectured and published widely on both linguistic and literary subjects. Among his publications are Linguistics and Formulas in Homer (1988), Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997) and Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (2005). He has co-edited Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002) and is the editor of A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (2010). Klappentext A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat. Zusammenfassung This book uses the motif of 'meat' and of 'food' as a productive key for exploring some of the major issues surrounding the interpretation of the Odyssey. It draws on folklore studies! the anthropology of hunting cultures! the comparative study of oral traditions! and the agricultural history of archaic and classical Greece. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: food for song; 1. Epos and aoidê; 2. Nostos as quest; 3. Meat in myth and life; 4. Unlimited goats and counted sheep; 5. Feasting in the land of the dawn; 6. The revenge of the sun; 7. The justice of Poseidon; 8. Remembering the gastêr; Epilogue: on 'interformularity'.

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