ANCS-1006EL Lecture 2: ANCS 1006 EL 10 CM 02 - Unit2
4 Mar 2018
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A dark age tale of a hero and his wife. This unit is devoted to the study of early greek epic, the story of odysseus in particular. It begins by examining the claims of the trojan war, odysseus" voyage, and the odyssey in general to historicity. It then considers how an epic the size of the odyssey might have come about, its subject-matter, namely. Odysseus" return home after the trojan war, in relation to other early greek epic, and returns within a. The unit looks next at the nature of odyssean heroism, before considering how penelope, the hero"s wife, fits into both the odyssey"s narrative and the larger context of depictions of women in early. A discussion of our hero"s relationship with his divine patron closes out the unit. Awareness of possible historicity of the trojan war and odysseus" journey, historical readings of. Homeric poetry and related interpretive issues, features of dark age greece.
