The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity

345 Pages·1998·20.18 MB·English

by  Irad Malkin

The Returns
of Odysseus
Colonization and Ethnicity
Irad Malkin
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London

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the Joan Palevsky Endowment in Classical Litemture.
University of California Press
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Malkin, I rad.
The returns of Odysseus : colonization and ethnicity / I rad
Malkin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275) and index.
ISBN 0-520-21185-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Homer. Odyssey. 2. Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature.
3. Epic poetry, Greek—History and criticism. 4. Trojan War—
literature and the war. 5. literature and society—Greece.
6. Greece—Social conditions. 7. Ethnicity in literature.
8. Colonies in literature. 9. Civilization, Homeric. 10. Heroes in
literature. 1. Title
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CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS / X
PREFACE / XI
INTRODUCTION / 2
», Contexts and Concepts / 33
2. Sailing and Colonizing in the Sea of Returns / 62
3. Ithaca and the Cult of Odysseus / 94
4. The Odyssey's Alternatives: Ethnicity and Colonization in Epirus / /20
5. Pithekoussai, Odysseus, and the Etruscans / /56
f>. Odysseus and Italy: A Peripheral Vision of Ethnicity / 27$
7. The Other Nostoi: Nestor, Epeios, Philoktetes, Trojan Sins / 220
8, The Other Nostoi: Diomedes / 274
APPENDIX: HOMERIC ISSUES / 259
BIBLIOGRAPHY / 275
INDEX / 325

MAPS
i. Western Greece and Italy / it
2. The Greek mainland and the Aegean / 12
. Ithaca and Kephallonia: main sites and anchorage
(after Heikell 1982: 51 ) / 65
4. Epirus and maritime routes / 66
5. The Strait of Otranto / 82
6. Diomedes in the Adriatic and Italy
(partly after Mastrocinque 1987) / 246