The Trials of Telemachus: Who Was the Odyssey Meant For?

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dc.contributor.authorMurnaghan, Sheila
dc.contributor.authorMurnaghan, Sheila
dc.date2023-05-17T15:01:34.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T13:03:52Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T13:03:52Z
dc.date.issued2002-01-01
dc.date.submitted2016-07-15T09:54:56-07:00
dc.description.abstractA consideration of Telemachus's role in the Odyssey can start with a modern poem: Linda Pastan's "The Son," first published in 1988 as part of a seven-poem sequence entitled "Re-Reading the Odyssey in Middle Age." Because Pastan's poem presents itself as a response to reading the Odyssey, the possible affinities between what a modern poet does in retelling a story found in an ancient text and what a modern critic does in interpreting or "reading" an ancient text are particularly close to the surface here. Pastan's record of her experience as a reader is also a telling account of the interpretive challenges posed by Homer's presentation of Telemachus.
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dc.legacy.articleid1067
dc.legacy.fields10.1353/are.2002.0011
dc.legacy.fulltexturlhttps://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=classics_papers&unstamped=1
dc.rights<p>Copyright © 2002 Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in <em>Arethusa</em> 35:1 (2002), 133-153. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.</p>
dc.source.beginpage133
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dc.source.issue78
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dc.source.journalDepartmental Papers (Classical Studies)
dc.source.journaltitleArethusa
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dc.source.volume35
dc.subject.otherArts and Humanities
dc.subject.otherClassics
dc.titleThe Trials of Telemachus: Who Was the Odyssey Meant For?
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