Bruce Louden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1421565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Louden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Louden |
| SIGNATURE | LOUDEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Telemachy
Idomeneus
Medon (3)
Suitors of Penelope
Deimos
Idaios (1)
Theoxeny
Sisyphos
Elpenor
Eurybates
Alkinoos
Meriones
Eurymachos
Antinoos
Phaeacians
Laestrygonians
Odysseus' Companions
Phobos
Homer's Odyssey and the near East
Odyssey 5
When the Odyssey brings Odysseus onstage after a four-book focus on Telemachos, he has no connection to the circumstances with which the poem has so far been concerned (the crisis the suitors cause in Ithaka for Telemachos and Penelope). He is off the map , as far as normal human existence is concerned. To insert Odysseus into its plot the Odyssey draws on three overlapping genres of myth. In placing Odysseus in a paradise where he could remain f…
Catabasis , consultation, and the vision
Book 11 of the Odysse y combines three distinct genres of myth, catabasis (or the descent to the underworld), consultation with the shade of a deceased prophet, and the vision . Catabasis , a particularly common mythic genre in Greek myth, survives in several other examples. Both the Iliad (8.363–9) and the Odyssey (11.623–6) refer to Herakles' descent (cf., Bacchylides Ode 5.56–175), performed as his final labor for Eurystheus. Orpheus and These…
Odyssey 4
Tales told by characters other than Odysseus comprise a significant part of the Odyssey . Unlike theoxeny, romance, Argonautic myth, or apocalypse, these tales do not inform the structure of the Odyssey , they reflect it, and have a more local impact and function. While he is Menelaus' guest, Telemachos hears two such tales, Helen's account of Odysseus entering Troy disguised as a beggar ( Od . 4.242–58), and Menelaus' tale of how he wrestled the…
Divine councils and apocalyptic myth
After a short proem ( Od . 1.1–10), and brief transition, the Odyssey 's first scene is a divine council on Mount Olympos ( Od . 1.26–96). I define a divine council simply as a conversation between two or more gods, often a large assembly of them, usually with the chief god presiding, usually concerned with the myth's protagonist . Since they depend on the presence of more than one god, divine councils are a naturally polytheistic genre, and also…
Romance
Most of the different subgenres of myth the Odyssey employs are subordinated under the broader rubric of “the return of Odysseus.” Odysseus' return, his voyages from Troy to Ithaka, and vanquishing the suitors constitutes the organizing framework of the entire epic (much as the strife between Akhilleus and Agamemnon provides the larger framework within which the Iliad incorporates other different types of myth), from Book 1 to Book 24. Even theox…
The Iliad
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Eumaios and Alkinoos
is aware of itself as a poetic product.l As is increasingly recognized, Odyssey is often concerned with what Doherty calls the reflexive quality of work-what might be called its attention to its own reception.2 Such discussions note how Odysseus appropriates language and gestures of epic singer, functioning as an internal narrator within greater narrative. There is thus a general awareness that principal narrator identifies himself with Odysseus …
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Telemachy
Idomeneus
Medon (3)
Suitors of Penelope
Deimos
Idaios (1)
Theoxeny
Sisyphos
Elpenor
Eurybates
Alkinoos
Meriones
Eurymachos
Antinoos
Phaeacians
Laestrygonians
Odysseus' Companions
Phobos
Homer's Odyssey and the near East
Odyssey 5
When the Odyssey brings Odysseus onstage after a four-book focus on Telemachos, he has no connection to the circumstances with which the poem has so far been concerned (the crisis the suitors cause in Ithaka for Telemachos and Penelope). He is off the map , as far as normal human existence is concerned. To insert Odysseus into its plot the Odyssey draws on three overlapping genres of myth. In placing Odysseus in a paradise where he could remain f…
Catabasis , consultation, and the vision
Book 11 of the Odysse y combines three distinct genres of myth, catabasis (or the descent to the underworld), consultation with the shade of a deceased prophet, and the vision . Catabasis , a particularly common mythic genre in Greek myth, survives in several other examples. Both the Iliad (8.363–9) and the Odyssey (11.623–6) refer to Herakles' descent (cf., Bacchylides Ode 5.56–175), performed as his final labor for Eurystheus. Orpheus and These…
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