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The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity / Irad Malkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520920262
  • 0520920260
  • 0585129983
  • 9780585129983
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Returns of Odysseus.DDC classification:
  • 883/.01 21
LOC classification:
  • PA4167 .M34 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Contexts and Concepts -- 2. Sailing and Colonizing in the Sea of Returns -- 3. Ithaca and the Cult of Odysseus -- 4. The Odyssey's Alternatives: Ethnicity and Colonization in Epirus -- 5. Pithekoussai, Odysseus, and the Etruscans -- 6. Odysseus and Italy: A Peripheral Vision of Ethnicity -- 7. The Other Nostoi: Nestor, Epeios, Philoktetes, Trojan Siris -- 8. The Other Nostoi: Diomedes -- App. Homeric Issues.
Summary: Irad Malkin contributes here to the current lively discussion of encounters among Greeks and non-Greeks. Through the prism of myths, he argues, notions of ethnicity and collective identity were articulated. Focussing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, he shows how these Return-myths influenced actual encounters during the time of early exploration and colonization in the western Mediterranean.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-313) and index.

1. Contexts and Concepts -- 2. Sailing and Colonizing in the Sea of Returns -- 3. Ithaca and the Cult of Odysseus -- 4. The Odyssey's Alternatives: Ethnicity and Colonization in Epirus -- 5. Pithekoussai, Odysseus, and the Etruscans -- 6. Odysseus and Italy: A Peripheral Vision of Ethnicity -- 7. The Other Nostoi: Nestor, Epeios, Philoktetes, Trojan Siris -- 8. The Other Nostoi: Diomedes -- App. Homeric Issues.

Irad Malkin contributes here to the current lively discussion of encounters among Greeks and non-Greeks. Through the prism of myths, he argues, notions of ethnicity and collective identity were articulated. Focussing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, he shows how these Return-myths influenced actual encounters during the time of early exploration and colonization in the western Mediterranean.

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