Maureen Alden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5627466 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maureen Alden |
| NOMBRES | Maureen |
| APELLIDO | Alden |
| FIRMA | ALDEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ulster |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Para-Narratives in the Odyssey
This book offers the first full-length study in English of the relationship between the Odyssey ’s main narrative and its para-narratives, the secondary narratives and episodes in a minor key which frequently suspend its progress. Many of the latter group take the form of paradigmatic secondary narratives about matters apparently external to the poem, which are related by the poet and his characters. For the characters, such stories may provide a…
Tables
Table 1.Detention (usually on an island)308 Table 2.θυμός (heart) in the apologos 310 Table 3. Nekyia : The Catalogue of Famous Women (11.235–330)315 Table 4.ἀτασθαλίη (presumption), ἀτασθάλλων (acting presumptuously), and ἀτάσθαλος (presumptuous)316 Table 5.The motif of trial...
Paradigms for Odysseus
The poem compares Odysseus with Heracles through shared epithets and exploits (including catabasis and archery), but the Heracles paradigm is discredited by Heracles’ murder of his guest-friend Iphitus. The vignette of Odysseus’ naming by his grandfather, Autolycus, identifies the source of the hero’s ancestral cunning and motivates his visit as a young man to Parnassus, where he kills a boar when hunting with his uncles, thereby effecting his in…
Para-Narratives for Telemachus
The poet’s design for Odysseus’ revenge on the suitors is projected in Athene/Mentes’ story (A1) of him standing fully armed at the outermost doors of the Taphian palace on a journey to fetch poison for his arrows. A story from Helen (B1) explores the possibility of confiding the rescue plan to the heroine after being recognized by her in hostile territory and receiving a bath. However, Menelaus’ account (B2) of Helen’s treachery towards the sold…
The Songs of Demodocus
Demodocus’ song of the quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles anticipates the quarrel between Odysseus and Euryalus at the Phaeacian games, and looks forward to Odysseus’ dealings with the suitors in Ithaca. It is the first of three songs which meditate on the relative merits of μῆτις (stratagem) and βίη (violence) in dealing with adultery. The handsome Euryalus corresponds in the second song to the good-looking Ares, who is caught in adultery by the s…
The First Person
The lies told by Odysseus in Ithaca feature a realistic itinerary via Crete, Egypt, and Thesprotia, and probably preserve earlier traditions of his return which have given place to the fantastic tales presented as truth in the apologos . Lies to the suitors are told in the persona of a metanast beggar, adopting a moral tone in which raiding and ἀτάσθαλα are punished, just as the suitors will be punished for raiding the house of Odysseus. The lies…
Para-Narratives of Return
The returns of the other heroes preface the adventures of Odysseus’ apologos , which reflect on his desire to escape from the Phaeacian court. To achieve nostos requires restraint of the heart. Odysseus must escape the potential detainer, Nausicaa, and her island paradise, as he escaped the detainer, Calypso, and her (remarkably similar) island paradise. Of the heroines he saw in Hades, Tyro’s fate rebukes Alcinous’ lax supervision of Nausicaa, a…
The Oresteia Story in the Odyssey
Telemachus is encouraged to follow the example of Orestes’ return from abroad to take revenge on his mother’s suitors. (Orestes’ matricide is downplayed, so that he offers a pattern which does not compromise Telemachus’ moral standing.) Agamemnon is trapped in an ambush and murdered at a feast by a trick of his wife’s to achieve a cross-over parallel with the suitors, who are tricked (by Penelope), ambushed, and murdered at a feast. The fish-and-…
Penelope
Penelope emerges favourably from comparison with Clytemnestra and Helen, the main paradigms of infidelity in the present, and with the Nekyia ’s catalogue of past heroines. The vulnerability of these ladies to seduction, corruption, and deception argues for taking Odysseus home, but the Phaeacians detain him abroad like Melampus in his catalogue. Penelope’s weaving was an antidote to the Dionysiac forces which threaten to put a suitor in Odysseus…
Meleager
Thoas (1)
Lions
Kalypso
Skylla
Litai
Tydeus
Kalydon
Althaia
Supplication
Kleopatre
Oineus
Charybdis
Phoinix (3)
Doloneia
Paradigms
Homer beside Himself
Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects contained in it. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly, and to be complicated by long speeches containing stories which might be interesting in themselves, but which seem to have no relevance to anything else. In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of majo…
The Resonances of the Song of Ares and Aphrodite
The song of Demodocus on the love-affair of Ares and Aphrodite (T 266-369) has had a rather mixed reception.1) The risqu? subject matter was condemned in antiquity as inappropriate for poetry, and it was deemed improper to present the gods in such a light (Plato, Rep. 3IOC; Xenophanes 2IB 11 D-K). The comic circumstances in which the gods appear in this burlesque have been attributed to a deterioration in piety (for literature see Burkert n.l.), …
Lions in Paradise
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Bronze Age Population Fluctuations in the Argolid from the Evidence of Mycenaean Tombs
The Role of Calypso in the Odyssey
The Resonances of the Song of Ares and Aphrodite
The song of Demodocus on the love-affair of Ares and Aphrodite (T 266-369) has had a rather mixed reception.1) The risqu? subject matter was condemned in antiquity as inappropriate for poetry, and it was deemed improper to present the gods in such a light (Plato, Rep. 3IOC; Xenophanes 2IB 11 D-K). The comic circumstances in which the gods appear in this burlesque have been attributed to a deterioration in piety (for literature see Burkert n.l.), …
Abbreviations
Para-Narratives
The Iliad is made up of narratives, primary and secondary. The primary narrative is told in the voice of the poet/narrator, and the secondary narratives in the voices of his characters. The main plot of the primary narrative needs no rehearsal. Everyone knows that its principal elements are the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, Achilles’ rejection of Agamemnon’s first attempt at reconciliation, Patroclus’ return to battle and his death, rec…
Dedication
Diomede
Many of those fighting at Troy are the sons of heroes who took part in the famous exploits of the previous generation, such as the Argonautica or the Calydonian boar hunt, or fought in its wars, such as the expedition of the Seven against Thebes or Heracles’ sack of Troy. Diomede’s father, Tydeus, fought and died in the expedition against Thebes, and his successes there are held up to Diomede as an example to follow. An exploit of Tydeus’ while f…
Appendix
Genealogy as Paradigm
Genealogical material can also send signals to the reader, sometimes as one of a series of correspondences which invite comparison of a pair or group of episodes, sometimes in paradigmatic fashion, where the career of a famous ancestor invites comparison with the career of a character in the poem.
Nestor
This introduction draws the attention of the audience both to the sweetness of Nestor’s rhetoric and to his authority, which derives from his longevity: he has seen two generations of men perish and is now ruling over the third. Nestor occupies a unique position among the Greek heroes at Troy, for he has personally associated with the heroes of the past and has a personal record of achievement in the heroic past.
The Paradigm of Meleager
The Iliad’s version of the story of Meleager presents that hero as the recipient of a number of requests from a succession of persons. Each of these requests is for the same thing: the hero should abandon his wrath and fight in defence of the town. This version of the story displays correspondences with the situation of Achilles: like Meleager, Achilles receives requests from a series of ambassadors, and each of these ambassadors corresponds to a…
Ceasefire
Put in mind of his own father and moved to tears Achilles took him by the hand and pushed the old king Gently away, but Priam curled up at his feet and Wept with him until their sadness filled the building.
The Shield of Achilles
Thefunction of para-narratives as a commentary on the events of the main plot of the Iliad is seen particularly clearly in the poet’s description of the scenes depicted by Hephaestus on the shield he makes for Achilles at the request of Thetis. The poet is perfectly free to describe any decoration he wishes his audience to imagine on the shield. He could have followed the pattern of some of his other descriptions of armour and weapons, which conc…
Homer beside Himself
Students reading the Iliad for the first time are often bewildered by the sheer volume of information on apparently unrelated subjects contained in it. The central narrative seems to unfold very slowly, and to be complicated by long speeches containing stories which might be interesting in themselves, but which seem to have no relevance to anything else. In this book Dr Alden offers advice on how to read the Iliad through the relationship of majo…
Homer beside Himself
Ancient Greek Dress
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Lions in Paradise
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Narrators and Focalizers
Meleager
Thoas (1)
Lions
Kalypso
Skylla
Litai
Tydeus
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