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Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity - The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination (Hardcover)
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Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity - The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
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Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece
and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco Benoit Carbone
delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places
defined in public imagination and media by their associated
histories become sites of memory and identity, as their landscape
and mythologies turn into insignia of a romanticised antiquity. For
the ancient Greeks, Homer had set the marine monsters of the
Odyssey in the Strait between Calabria and Sicily. Since then, this
passage has been glowing with the aura of its mythological
landmarks. Travellers and tourists have played Odysseus by
re-enacting his journey. Scholars and explorers have explained the
myths as metaphors of whirlpools and marine fauna. The iconic
Strait and village of Scilla have turned into place-myths and
playgrounds, defined by the region's heritage. Carbone observes the
enduring impact of Hellas on the real Strait today. The continuous
rekindling of cultural and visual traditions of place in the arts,
media, travel, and tourism have intersected with philhellenic
historiographies, shaping local policies, public histories, views
of development, and forms of Hellenicist identitarianism. Elements
of society have celebrated the landscape of the Odyssey,
appropriated Homer as their imagined heirs, and purported
themselves as the original Europeans-pandering to outdated
ideological appropriations of 'classical' antiquity and
exclusionary, West-centric views of the Mediterranean.
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