Strange Instances of Time and Space in the Odyssey

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raised by the Homeric Odyssey. The interpretations in this book shed new light on this emblematic literary work of Western civilization.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Trips, Ships and Helmsmen in The Odyssey
Chapter 2: Onwards and Backwards
Chapter 3: Odysseus' Crimes and The Prolonged Nostos
Chapter 4: Crossing Straits: From "We" to "I"
Chapter 5: Between Life and Death: Patroclus, Elpenor, The Suitors and Odysseus' Companions
Chapter 6: Leaving Calypso's Island or `A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Menelaos Christopoulos is professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras.

Product details

• Authors: Menelaos Christopoulos, Christopoulos Menelaos
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666920390
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-039-0
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Literary studies: poetry and poets