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Memories of Odysseus : Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece by François Hartog (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226318532

ISBN-139780226318530

eBay Product ID (ePID)1899418

Product Key Features

Number of Pages266 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMemories of Odysseus : Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece

SubjectArchaeology, Historical Geography, Ancient / Greece, Essays & Travelogues, Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2001

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Travel, Social Science, History

AuthorFrançois Hartog

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2001-035153

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal938/.007/2

Table Of ContentForeword: Odysseus in Auschwitz Paul Cartledge Introduction: Travellers and Frontier-men 1. The Return of Odysseus A voyage and a return journey Anthropology The return to Ithaca The voyages of a name 2. Egyptian Voyages Seeing Egypt Greek views Egypt, the first civilizing power? From Thrice Greatest Hermes to Champollion 3. The Invention of the Barbarian and an Inventory of the World Barbarians and Greeks Representing the world Centre and extremities Viewing the world from Alexandria 4. Greek Voyages The voyages of the elder Anacharsis and frontiers forgotten Frontiers within, or ordinary kinds of discrimination The limits of Arcadia Alexander between Rome and Greece 5. Roman Voyages The voyages of Polybius The voyages of Dionysius of Halicarnassus The voyages of Strabo and Aelius Aristides Conclusion: Memories of Apollonius and the Name of Pythagoras Notes Index

SynopsisThe conception of the Other has long been a problem for philosophers. Emmanuel Levinas, best known for his attention to precisely that issue, argued that the voyages of Ulysses represent the very nature of Western philosophy: "His adventure in the world is nothing but a return to his native land, a complacency with the Same, a misrecognition of the Other." In Memories of Odysseus , François Hartog examines the truth of Levinas' assertion and, in the process, uncovers a different picture. Drawing on a remarkable range of authors and texts, ancient and modern, Hartog looks at accounts of actual travelers, as well as the way travel is used as a trope throughout ancient Greek literature, and finds that, instead of misrecognition, the Other is viewed with doubt and awe in the Homeric tradition. In fact, he argues, the Odyssey played a crucial role in shaping this attitude in the Greek mind, serving as inspiration for voyages in which new encounters caused the Greeks to revise their concepts of self and other. Ambitious in scope, this book is a sophisticated exploration of ancient Greece and its sense of identity., The conception of the Other has long been a problem for philosophers. Emmanuel Levinas, best known for his attention to precisely that issue, argued that the voyages of Ulysses represent the very nature of Western philosophy: "His adventure in the world is nothing but a return to his native land, a complacency with the Same, a misrecognition of the Other." In Memories of Odysseus , Fran ois Hartog examines the truth of Levinas' assertion and, in the process, uncovers a different picture. Drawing on a remarkable range of authors and texts, ancient and modern, Hartog looks at accounts of actual travelers, as well as the way travel is used as a trope throughout ancient Greek literature, and finds that, instead of misrecognition, the Other is viewed with doubt and awe in the Homeric tradition. In fact, he argues, the Odyssey played a crucial role in shaping this attitude in the Greek mind, serving as inspiration for voyages in which new encounters caused the Greeks to revise their concepts of self and other. Ambitious in scope, this book is a sophisticated exploration of ancient Greece and its sense of identity.

LC Classification NumberG84.H3713 2001