Odyssey - scholars

Romancing Nausicaa

Simon Goldhill

Simon Goldhill

“Odyssey 6 is often read as a romantic tale”

Nausicaa - victim, helper of temptress

Adrian Kelly

Adrian Kelly

“a real risk in these scenes that the hero will become deflected from his return and remain in the eternal netherworld”

Humour of the Odyssey

Angus Bowie

Angus Bowie

“mostly the bad guys who do the laughing”

Xenia (pattern)

Peter Jones

Peter Jones

“this sort of ‘plan’ is obviously very useful for an oral poet”

gods and poets

Barbara Grazios

Barbara Grazios

“they consistently fail to behave in the dignified manner we would expect”

story telling

Karen Ni Mheallaigh

Karen Ni Mheallaigh

“telling of stories in the Odyssey is a way of exploring how the poem’s story of Odysseus’ homecoming is itself told”

clothes

Robert Fowler

Robert Fowler

“gifts of clothes actually seem to mark stages in the story’s progress”

Penelope’s song

Penelope Murray

Penelope Murray

“why reject a life of ease … in order to return to an ageing wife and a life of responsibility?”

Odyssey by a woman

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

the Odyssey was written by a woman, whose aim was “to exalt her sex by showing how a clever woman can bring any number of men to her feet, hoodwink them, spoil them, and in the end destroy them'“

Ares and Aphrodite song

Bruce Karl Braswell

Bruce Karl Braswell

“paint a moral contrast in a specific context”

hidden hero

Jasper Griffin

Friends, strangers, guests; becoming a man; slaves

Emily Wilson

Odysseus as bard

Sam Gartland

Sam Gartland

“switch from omnipotent poet to one man’s interpretation of events”

Sirens

Hannah Rosenfelder

Hannah Rosenfelder

“a case of seductive feminine song threatening male action and purpose”

Disguise

Jamie Hardie

Jamie Hardie

“Penelope’s disguises are even more subtle and nuanced than those of her husband”

Palace of Odysseus

De Jong and Bakker

De Jong

“Odysseus is a secondary narrator to his own story”

Hospitality

West

Aeneid Talk

Rosie Wyles