This besieged sense of a realm seething with social hostilities and deep divisions, in which the very possibility of dialogue seems out of reach, may well strike a chord. Unlike The Iliad, which sings of the glorious feats of godlike warriors in a legendary heroic age, The Odyssey tells of a weary man’s fight for survival in the face of threatening Others who can never share his view of the world or take his interests to heart.
Yet the spirit of the second Homeric epic is wary. They were setting up colonies and resuming the trade that had been interrupted by whatever cataclysmic forces-invasions, rebellions, pestilence, natural disasters-brought down the Bronze Age civilizations of Minoa and Mycenae. c., the Greeks were voyaging into the world once again after a period of dark decline.
Who could have guessed that the time would be so ripe for an Odyssey that shrinks the vast distance between the ancient text and contemporary sensibilities? During the age when The Odyssey took form, near the end of the eighth century b.
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