Blood and iron : stories and storytelling in Homer's Odyssey /

Blood and iron : stories and storytelling in Homer's Odyssey /

Blood and Iron is an exploration of the role of gossip, rumor and storytelling in the society depicted in the Odyssey and in the real world in which the poem was performed. It includes extensive analysis of Homeric narrative technique, with particular attention to the way the singer creates tension...

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Main Author: Olson, S. Douglas.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1995.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 148.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Homer. > Odyssey.
Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature.
Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Odyssey (Homer)
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Epic poetry > Stories, plots, etc.
Storytelling in literature.
Storytelling > Greece.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Epic poetry.
Epic poetry, Greek.
Literature.
Storytelling.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Stories, plots, etc.

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Call Number: PA4167 .O47 1995

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • κλέος in the Homeric World /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • The Stories of Agamemnon /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • The Wanderings /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Telemachos and the κλέος of Odysseus /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Of Time and the Poet: The Internal Chronology of the Odyssey /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Eumaios the Swineherd /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • The Story of the Return /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • The Return of the Father /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • The Return of the King /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • The Return of the God /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • kλέoς ἄφθιτov ἔσται (IX.413) and Homeric Formularity /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Book-Divisions in the Odyssey /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Bibliography /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Index Locorum /
  • S. Douglas Olson
  • Supplements to Mnemosyne /
  • J.M. Bremer , L.F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H.W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh and P.H. Schrijvers.