By Egbert J. Bakker

ISBN-10: 052111120X

ISBN-13: 9780521111201

ISBN-10: 1316506975

ISBN-13: 9781316506974

This entire research of the Odyssey sees in meat and meat intake a centre of gravitation for the translation of the poem. It goals to put the cultural practices represented within the poem opposed to the heritage of the (agricultural) lived fact of the poem's audiences within the archaic age, and to align the subjects of the adventures in Odysseus' wanderings with the occasions that transpire at Ithaca within the hero's absence. The felony meat intake of the suitors of Penelope within the civilised house of Ithaca is proven to resonate with the adventures of Odysseus and his partners within the pre-cultural worlds they're compelled to go to. The ebook attracts on folklore reviews, the anthropology of looking cultures, the comparative examine of oral traditions, and the rural historical past of archaic and classical Greece. it's going to even be of curiosity to narratologists and scholars of folklore and Homeric poetics.

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