The Greatness of His Nature’
Fire and Justice in the Odyssey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11832962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward M Bradley (Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-148 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ramus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0048671x00004318 |
| OpenAlex | W2499558720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
In such terms Zeus instructs Athena to bind together the kingdom of Odysseus in enduring harmony and thereby brings to a happy conclusion the hero's long, painful nostos from Troy. The conditions of Odysseus' future contrast radically with the dangerous instability of his past; in the invocation to the poem (1.1-10), the accent falls somberly on wandering, destruction, suffering, helplessness, and frustration. By the end of Book 24, however, Odysseus is powerfully in control of his world, restored to his family and people, and assured of divine sanction for the enjoyment of peace and prosperity into a sleek old age and a gentle death (23.281-84)
Aesthetics · Art · Greatness · Harmony (color · HERO · Learned helplessness · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Prosperity · Theology · Trial by ordeal · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Name of Odysseus
The Formulation of the Revenge Motif in the Odyssey
Four Stages of Greek Thought
The Oresteia-Story in the Odyssey
Penelope and Odysseus in Odyssey XIX
Homer and the Heroic Tradition
People and Themes in Homer's Odyssey
The Greeks and the Irrational
The Gods of Homer
The Homeric Imagination
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 1980 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |