This comprehensive study of the Odyssey sees in meat and meat
consumption a centre of gravitation for the interpretation of the
poem. It aims to place the cultural practices represented in the
poem against the background of the (agricultural) lived reality of
the poem's audiences in the archaic age, and to align the themes of
the adventures in Odysseus' wanderings with the events that
transpire at Ithaca in the hero's absence. The criminal meat
consumption of the suitors of Penelope in the civilised space of
Ithaca is shown to resonate with the adventures of Odysseus and his
companions in the pre-cultural worlds they are forced to visit. The
book draws on folklore studies, the anthropology of hunting
cultures, the comparative study of oral traditions, and the
agricultural history of archaic and classical Greece. It will also
be of interest to narratologists and students of folklore and
Homeric poetics.
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