Séquences trifonctionnelles indo-européennes dans l'Odyssée
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: • Describing Ulysses' return to Ithaca, Homer uses the Indo-European trifunctionality : Ulysses facing Iros and the Pretenders plays at prophesying, at wrestling, at being guest ; alone Ulysses receives from Penelope a garment, a weapon and foot-wears - i.e. the conventional signs of the investiture of the Indo-European king ; he retrieves his name, his bow and his wife. The discovery strengthens the holomologies between the Odyssey and other epic works, questions any interpretations of the poem and tells in favour of the importance of late traditions.
Source: Dialogues d histoire ancienne
Author: Marcel Meulder
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1977294696