Bruce Louden

Homer's Odyssey and the Near East (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, and Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes - hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members - reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular the book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the Gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511853234
• Artikelnr.: 53008289

Autorenporträt

Bruce Louden is Professor in the Languages and Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, El Paso. His previous books are The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning (1999) and The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Divine councils and apocalyptic myth; 2. Theoxeny: Odyssey 1
3
13-22
and Genesis 18-19; 3. Romance: the Odyssey and the myth of Joseph (Genesis 37
39-47); 4. Helen and Rahab (Joshua 2)
Menelaus and Jacob (Genesis 32:22-32); 5. Ogygia and creation myth
Kalypso and Ishtar; 6. Argonautic myth: Odysseus and Nausikaa/Circe
Jason and Medea
Jacob and Rachel (Odyssey 6-8
10-12
13.1-187
Genesis 28-33); 7. Odysseus and Jonah: sea-monsters and the fantastic voyage; 8. The combat myth: Polyphemos and Humbaba; 9. Catabasis
consultation
and the vision: Odyssey 11
1 Samuel 28
Gilgamesh 12
Aeneid 6
and the Book of Revelation; 10. Odyssey 12 and Exodus 32: Odysseus and Moses
the people defy their leader and rebel against God; 11. The suitors and the depiction of impious men in wisdom literature; 12. Odysseus and Jesus: the King returns
unrecognized and abused in his own Kingdom; 13. Contained apocalypse: Odyssey 12
13
22 and 24
Exodus 32 (and Genesis 18-19); Conclusion.