Fish Similes and Converging Story Lines in the Odyssey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9328884 |
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| Authors | Ineke Sluiter (0000-0002-5042-5686, Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 821-824 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000983881400041x |
| OpenAlex | W2314523960 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
It has long been noted that there are links between the Homeric portrayals of Odysseus' companions and the suitors. These two largely anonymous groups of Ithacans are connected not only by their ἀτασθαλίαι (‘reckless deeds’) but also by the fact that by the end of the Odyssey both groups will be dead. Clearly, these fatalities are – in their different ways – crucial to the story. Nagler regards the death of the suitors as a ‘grim inversion’ of the death of Odysseus' crew. Odysseus himself is depicted both by the primary narrator and in his own narrative in Od. 9–12 as making every effort to save his crew, all in vain. By contrast, he is the prime and highly effective instigator of the death of the suitors
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Crew · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Literature · Narrative · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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