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Publication

1998 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

82,750 words, Guess

Page Count

331 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC883/.01
  • LCCPA4167 .M34 1998

Description

Irad Malkin contributes here to the current lively discussion of encounters among Greeks and non-Greeks. Through the prism of myths, he argues, notions of ethnicity and collective identity were articulated. Focussing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, he shows how these Return-myths influenced actual encounters during the time of early exploration and colonization in the western Mediterranean.

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