The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey

ISBN-13: 9780521111201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 206 str.

Egbert J Bakker

Opis

A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat.

Recenzje

'… a highly engaging study on the symbolic value and religious importance of meat in The Odyssey … an enjoyable, useful and important addition to the vast field of Homeric studies.' D. Felton, The Classical Review

Spis treści

Prologue: food for song; 1. Epos and aoidê; 2. Nostos as quest; 3. Meat in myth and life; 4. Unlimited goats and counted sheep; 5. Feasting in the land of the dawn; 6. The revenge of the sun; 7. The justice of Poseidon; 8. Remembering the gastêr; Epilogue: on 'interformularity'.