'The Odyssey' - speech

• Arts
• School of Letters, Art, and Media
• ENGL1002 - Narratives of Romance and Adventure

Resource Sample

The Odyssey's reflection of the themes of selfhood, identity, hospitality and naming embodies some of the major aspects of the scholarship of narrative and narrative techniques. Through the skilful interweaving of these themes into an epic story, Homer has told a tale which has become so well-known that the title `the father of romance' has been bestowed upon him. Here, we will discuss the embodiment of these themes in Chapter Nineteen of the Odyssey, and the intersection of the themes in the ch...

Resource Topics

• Ancient Greece
• Epic poetry
• Eurycleia
• Greek mythology
• Homer
• Laertes
• Melantho
• Odysseus
• Odyssey
• Penelope
• Telemachus
• Xenia

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