The Raft of Odysseus looks at the fascinating intersection of traditional myth with an enthnographically-viewed Homeric world. Carol Dougherty argues that the resourcefulness of Odysseus as an adventurer on perilous seas served as an example to Homer's society which also had to adjust in inventive ways to turbulent conditions. The fantastic adventures of Odysseus act as a prism for the experiences of Homer's own listeners--traders, seafarers, storytellers, soldiers--and give us a glimpse into their own world of hopes and fears, 500 years after the Iliadic events were supposed to have happened.
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"This is a sparkling study of the Odyssey. It offers insightful interpretations of a series of passages from the poem (embracing at times Hesiod, Ibycus and more), while presenting also a much larger argument about the interplay of poetic discourse and archaic notions of the world around."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This is an excellent book, giving us a better sense than ever before of the Greek sense of wonderment and adventure as they came to know the entire Mediterranean Sea in the eighth century BC. It will be required reading for literary critics, comparativists, historians, and archaeologists alike."--Ian Morris, Stanford University
"Carol Dougherty's The Raft of Odysseus: The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey moves beyond the work of the French classicists Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Fran�ois Hartog to locate the synchronic structural oppositions that organize the Homeric imagination in an evolving historical reality. Odysseus' linked roles as traveler, craftsman, and poet permit him to negotiate issues central to the world of Archaic Greece concerning exchange (both gift-exchange and commerce), the foundation of new colonies, and the revitalization of a traditional society through foreign contacts."--Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University
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Carol Dougherty is at Wellesley College.
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Throughout much of his poetry, but particularly in his epic poem Omeros, the contemporary Caribbean poet Derek Walcott invokes images of the sea and navigation as metaphors for the poetic process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aristocratic hospitality, successful return home, exchange spectrum, ethnographic imagination, early archaic period, circulating goods, overseas settlement, magic ships, safe passage home, wandering men, lying tales, travel tales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Throughout much of his poetry, but particularly in his epic poem Omeros, the contemporary Caribbean poet Derek Walcott invokes images of the sea and navigation as metaphors for the poetic process. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aristocratic hospitality, successful return home, exchange spectrum, ethnographic imagination, early archaic period, circulating goods, overseas settlement, magic ships, safe passage home, wandering men, lying tales, travel tales Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Golden Age, The Tempest, Catalogue of Ships, Near Eastern, Trojan War, Derek Walcott, Heliconian Muses New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on 18 pages
- Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art by Sarah P. Morris in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Arts and Crafts of Ancient Greece (Arts & Crafts of the Ancient World) by Ting Morris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity) by Walter Burkert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography by James Clifford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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