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1 online resource |
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Preface; Prologue: food for song; Chapter 1 Epos and aoide; Epos and aoide; Just like an aoidos; Chapter 2 Nostos as quest; Nostos and quest; Variations on a theme; From quest to return; Chapter 3 Meat in myth and life; Heroic feasting; The dangers of the dais; Dining to destroy; Meat in the real world; Chapter 4 Of hunters and herders; The Suitors and the Cyclops; The Master of Animals; Unlimited meats, innumerable goats; The limits of wealth; Unlimited meats, numbered sheep; The master's return; Chapter 5 Feasting in the land of the dawn; Hunting to survive |
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The inclusive societyThe yearlong feast; Rethinking the Necyia; The feast of the ghosts; Chapter 6 The revenge of the Sun; The festival of the New Moon; Eating in the land of the Sun; Archery in the light of the Sun; Chapter 7 The justice of Poseidon; The prayer and the sacrifice; Zeus and Poseidon; Justice for Odysseus; Chapter 8 Remembering the gaster; Bellies and beggars; Bastards and burning ones; Gaster and thumos; Gaster and menos; Remembering the gaster; Odysseus and Achilles; Epilogue: on interformularity -- Bibliography; Index locorum; Index |
| Summary |
"This comprehensive study of the Odyssey sees in meat and meat consumption a centre of gravitation for the interpretation of the poem. It aims to place the cultural practices represented in the poem against the background of the (agricultural) lived reality of the poem's audiences in the archaic age, and to align the themes of the adventures in Odysseus' wanderings with the events that transpire at Ithaca in the hero's absence. The criminal meat consumption of the suitors of Penelope in the civilised space of Ithaca is shown to resonate with the adventures of Odysseus and his companions in the pre-cultural worlds they are forced to visit. The book draws on folklore studies, the anthropology of hunting cultures, the comparative study of oral traditions, and the agricultural history of archaic and classical Greece. It will also be of interest to narratologists and students of folklore and Homeric poetics"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Homer. Odyssey.
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| SUBJECT |
Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea gnd |
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Homère. "Odyssée" rero |
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Odyssey (Homer) fast |
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Meat in literature.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Meat in literature
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Fleisch Motiv
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Grieks.
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Odyssea (Homerus)
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Literaire thema's.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107341067 |
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110734106X |
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9781139047722 |
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1139047728 |
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9781316506974 |
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1316506975 |
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1107356938 |
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9781107356931 |
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1107343569 |
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9781107343566 |
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1107347319 |
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9781107347311 |
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1107348560 |
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9781107348561 |
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1107344816 |
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9781107344815 |
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