Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Berkeley, CA |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Number of pages | 331 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0520211855, 0520920260, 0585129983, 9780520920262, 9780585129983 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
ULI Keywords
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- Homer -- Odyssey
- Odysseus -- King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- In literature
- Civilization, Homeric
- Colonies in literature
- Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
- Ethnicity in literature
- Heroes in literature
- Literature and society -- Greece
- Trojan War -- Literature and the war
- Greece -- Social conditions
- הומרוס -- אודיסיאה
- Homeric civilization