![]() His ongoing story, which is the Odyssey, must be about the seafarer who is making his way back home, not about the warrior who once fought at Troy. For Odysseus to get over the Iliad, he must sail past it. That is the essence of the master myth of the Odyssey. ![]() And to get on with his nostos, his song about homecoming, the hero needs his noos, his special way of ‘thinking’. In other words, he must get on with his nostos, which is not only his homecoming to Ithaca but also the song about this homecoming. He must get over the Iliad and get on with the Odyssey. | 7 For they perished through their own deeds of sheer recklessness, | 8 disconnected as they were, because of what they the story of his homecoming to Ithaca in the Odyssey, he must get over the kleos of Achilles, which is the story of Troy in the Iliad. | 6 But do what he might he could not save his comrades, even though he very much wanted to. | 4 Many were the pains he suffered in his heart while crossing the sea | 5 struggling to merit the saving of his own life and his own homecoming as well as the homecoming of his comrades. | 3 Many different cities of many different people did he see, getting to know different ways of thinking. | 1 That man, tell me O Muse the song of that man, that versatile man, who in very many ways | 2 veered from his path and wandered off far and wide, after he had destroyed the sacred city of Troy. The living word II: Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo The living word I: Socrates in Plato’s Apology of Socrates The hero’s agony in the Bacchae of Euripides The hero as mirror of men’s and women’s experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and heroic pollution Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the power of the cult hero in death Looking beyond the cult hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus Heroic aberration in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus The cult hero as an exponent of justice in Homeric poetry and beyond ![]() Blessed are the heroes: The cult hero in Homeric poetry and beyond The mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey ![]() The return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey The psychology of the hero’s sign in the Homeric Iliad The sign of the hero in visual and verbal art When mortals become ‘equal’ to immortals: Death of a hero, death of a bridegroom Achilles as lyric hero in the songs of Sappho and Pindar Achilles as epic hero and the idea of total recall in song The Homeric Iliad and the glory of the unseasonal hero ![]()
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