Wining The Swine
Wining the Swine
The loss and recapture of “nostos”
The Odyssey, as a work of literature, is an epic poetic journey possessing cyclical themes of hardships and triumphs. During his time on the isle of the goddess Circe, Odysseus and his crewmates follow a preexisting theme of The Odyssey in which they, as a group, confront a dire situation in order to find eventual salvation through a combination of elements. It is not as though the crew continuously happen upon separate problems, solve them, and move on (even though the separate occurrences may have appeared mere happenstance). Each “scene” of The Odyssey builds on each previous scene to create a patchwork pyramid of fables and myths, each individual one designed to demonstrate in part how a journey becomes an end in itself. Although the style and content of Homer’s lyric lends one little by way of internal knowledge of Odysseus’s intent via complex internal monologue, we are able to address his intents and......
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