Add to ORKGUlysses’ final identification in the Odyssey is not a univocal event: the recognition has several steps, some more symbolic than others. This paper deals in particular with the scene of the bow competition in Od. XXI, after which the hero kills the suitors. Data drawn from both textual analysis and archaeological surveys from the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages allows us to distinguish different symbolic facets of the bow: hunting weapon, Penelope’s avatar, “double” of the cithara and, as such, even feature of royalty
Throughout the Iliad there are countless similes, several dealing with animals and many of those dea...
The connections between belligerence and sexuality are well known to ethologists and anthropologists...
The Greek and Roman civilizations were established on the basis of a single religious and political ...
The bow and the olive tree. At the end of the Odyssey, the contest of the bow would allow Ulysses to...
Ancient Greece, being in a crossroad between the Eastern World and the Western World, occupies an am...
The contest of the bow in the last books of the Odyssey, at the end of which Penelope is supposed to...
Archers are very uncommon in Greek classical culture, as the bow is usually considered an inferior a...
This work focuses on the character of Hector, son of the king of Troy Priam, and his iconographical ...
Kirke’s transformation of men into animals is depicted on nearly fifteen attic vases in the VIth and...
In both Telemachus' journey to the Peloponnese and the final battle in the hall initiatory motifs ha...
The slaughter of the suitors in the Odysssey corresponds symbolically but antithetically to the fall...
The present article analyses the semantic value contained in the epic formulae epea pteroenta and hi...
My Phd project currently in progress concerns bows and archers in Greek archaic poetry, in a compara...
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem which portrays the duration of Trojan War along with battle ...
In the scene of the bow contest in Book 21 of the Odyssey, several questions are raised, among which...
Throughout the Iliad there are countless similes, several dealing with animals and many of those dea...
The connections between belligerence and sexuality are well known to ethologists and anthropologists...
The Greek and Roman civilizations were established on the basis of a single religious and political ...
The bow and the olive tree. At the end of the Odyssey, the contest of the bow would allow Ulysses to...
Ancient Greece, being in a crossroad between the Eastern World and the Western World, occupies an am...
The contest of the bow in the last books of the Odyssey, at the end of which Penelope is supposed to...
Archers are very uncommon in Greek classical culture, as the bow is usually considered an inferior a...
This work focuses on the character of Hector, son of the king of Troy Priam, and his iconographical ...
Kirke’s transformation of men into animals is depicted on nearly fifteen attic vases in the VIth and...
In both Telemachus' journey to the Peloponnese and the final battle in the hall initiatory motifs ha...
The slaughter of the suitors in the Odysssey corresponds symbolically but antithetically to the fall...
The present article analyses the semantic value contained in the epic formulae epea pteroenta and hi...
My Phd project currently in progress concerns bows and archers in Greek archaic poetry, in a compara...
The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem which portrays the duration of Trojan War along with battle ...
In the scene of the bow contest in Book 21 of the Odyssey, several questions are raised, among which...
Throughout the Iliad there are countless similes, several dealing with animals and many of those dea...
The connections between belligerence and sexuality are well known to ethologists and anthropologists...
The Greek and Roman civilizations were established on the basis of a single religious and political ...