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Does the Odyssey reach a completion? A discussion of the problem of the pollution, created by Odysseus' revenge on the suitors; Telemachus, Orestes and Peisistratus as transitional figures between the present and the heroic world; Odysseus "mopping the floor" at the end of the Odyssey; a ritual completion is reached through the recycling of the Odyssey in performance. A similar ethical problem of the polluting funeral of Patroklos in the Iliad. A question of right and wrong in Homer, which is not mapped out juridically, as in Hesiod.
Recorded in Fall 2019 during v12 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 11 and 12, and responses to the Discussion Questions.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
Does the Odyssey reach a completion? A discussion of the problem of the pollution, created by Odysseus' revenge on the suitors; Telemachus, Orestes and Peisistratus as transitional figures between the present and the heroic world; Odysseus "mopping the floor" at the end of the Odyssey; a ritual completion is reached through the recycling of the Odyssey in performance. A similar ethical problem of the polluting funeral of Patroklos in the Iliad. A question of right and wrong in Homer, which is not mapped out juridically, as in Hesiod.
Recorded in Fall 2019 during v12 of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 11 and 12, and responses to the Discussion Questions.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
