Research Catalog

Title

Eve of the festival : making myth in Odyssey 19 / Olga Levaniouk.

Author

Levaniouk, Olga, 1971-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

x, 368 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Eve of the Festival is a study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue between Penelope and Odysseus (Odyssey 19). The author makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication which provides the speakers with a coded way of exchanging their thoughts. At the core of the book is a detailed examination of several myths in the dialogue to understand what is being said and to what effect. The dialogue is interpreted as an exchange of performances which have for their occasion the eve of Apollo's festival and which amount to activating, and even enacting, the myth corresponding within the Odyssey to this ritual event. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Hellenic studies ; 46

Uniform Title

Hellenic studies ; 46.

Subject

• Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Homer
• Myth in literature
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature
• Penelope (Greek mythological character) > In literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Odysseus. Beginning of the dialogue: setting up the third Cretan lie -- The name -- Zeus and the king -- Younger brother -- Minos -- Crete and the poetics of renewal -- The cloak -- The pin -- Eurybates -- Odysseus and the boar -- Penelope. The conversation -- Aedon -- The dream -- The decision -- Back to the loom -- The Pandareids and the festival of Apollo -- Penelope and the Penelops.

ISBN

9780674053359 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010023638

OCLC

456169782

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library