Odysseus: The Proem and the Problem

Nagler, Michael N.

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“…After he has neutralized the threat posed by Kirke, Odysseus returns to those he has left behind at the ship to invite them to join 64 . On this central ethical problem, and the way it is handled obliquely by the poem, see Nagler (1990). On p. 347, Nagler identifies a hermeneutic principle that seems eminently relevant to my interpretation of Od.…”

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THE ‘NARROW ROAD’ AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE USE IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY

Elmer¹

2015

Ramus

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I begin this exploration of characteristically Iliadic and Odyssean attitudes toward the traditional language in which these poems are composed by treading again a well-rutted path in the field of mid-20th century Homeric studies. In formulating his radical revision of the aesthetics of Homeric poetry, Milman Parry took as one of his guiding principles Heinrich Düntzer's notion of a contradiction between the compositional utility of the fixed epithet and its semantic value: if an epithet could be shown to have been selected on the basis of its utility in versification—and Parry's detailed examinations of extensive and economical systems of noun-epithet formulae were aimed in part at demonstrating this point—then it would be proven by that very fact that the epithet's meaning was irrelevant to its selection. Moreover, Parry asserted that the success of poetry composed in such a manner would depend on a corresponding indifference on the part of the audience, an indifference that must be, by his reasoning, categorical and absolute.

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“…Cf. Nagler (1990), 346, who calls Eurylokhos' accusation 'a bitingly sarcastic revision of the proem's language'. Nagler connects Eurylokhos' charge to that of Eupeithes, father of Antinoos, at Od.…”

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THE ‘NARROW ROAD’ AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE USE IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY

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The Cambridge Guide to Homer

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Lupack³

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The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry

Stocking

2017

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This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse referred to as the 'politics of the belly'. This mythic-poetic discourse presents sacrifice as a site of symbolic conflict between the male stomach and female womb for both mortals and immortals. Ultimately, the book argues that the ritual of sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the perpetuation of patriarchal ideology not just in early Greek hexameter, but throughout Greek cultural history.

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Odysseus: The Proem and the Problem

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

THE ‘NARROW ROAD’ AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE USE IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY

THE ‘NARROW ROAD’ AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE USE IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY

The Cambridge Guide to Homer

The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry

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