Unmarked Space
Odysseus and the Inland Journey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9298287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Purves (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arethusa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0975 • E-ISSN: 1080-6504 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/are.2006.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2153566010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper analyzes the importance of the border between land and sea in Greek thought by asking what it means for Odysseus to walk so far inland that he meets people who have no knowledge of ships or oars. When he leaves the orienting border of the sea behind, Odysseus enters a terrain where he becomes completely lost for the very first time. I argue that the turning of both Odysseus and the Odyssean poet inland looks not only to the end of the poem, but also to the end of epic and the Homeric tradition
Art · Cartography · EPIC · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Space (punctuation) · Terrain · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
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The Cambridge Guide to Homer
Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece
Cyrus Console’s The Odicy and epic ecology
Watching the Great Sea of Beauty
Inquiring into Nostos and Its Cognates
Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation
Agnoēsis and the Death of Odysseus in the Odyssey and the Telegony
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |