Epic poetry and legends are thought to be imaginary. Studies and science show that they may have a basis in history, yet the study of places-names – toponomy – supported by a multi-disciplinary approach provides sufficient tangible evidence as to enable the tracing of unwritten historic events and the description of forgotten contexts. In this paper, the researcher will conduct an analysis of Homer’s Ogygia, its character Calypso, and the events mentioned in the text. These factors provide enough details to classify and transform the perception of an imaginary story into a fact-based historic account – an early form of historiography – set on the island of Gozo-Malta
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This article tends to summarize some specific literary features of the Homeric poems – Iliad and Ody...
© 2014 Dr. James O'MaleyThis thesis argues that the Iliad’s attitude to mythic narratives from outsi...
It is the aim of this paper to reinterpret Old Greek »singing« deities, the sirens, described mainly...
The thesis has been written as part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Rom...
This chapter explores one aspect of historiography's debt to epic, and uses this as a basis for some...
Introduction to a special issue of Phoenix on Homer and Near Eastern epic with the following contrib...
The poet of the Odyssey takes care to present the island of Ithaca as a real land, well connected wi...
To understand the human perception of landscapes in the past, archaeologists would require knowledge...
This paper opens with a brief overview of the geographical world of Homer. Based mainly on the Homer...
The aim of this paper is to analyze how the Homeric poems are approached as historical sources in An...
Problems posed by Homeric geography, and especially the wanderings of Odysseus, had excited scholars...
This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions ...
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to w...
Did Homer tell the ‘truth\u27 about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue ...
From immemorial time, many Tyrrhenian places of ancient Sicily and Italy were identified (also by th...
This article tends to summarize some specific literary features of the Homeric poems – Iliad and Ody...
© 2014 Dr. James O'MaleyThis thesis argues that the Iliad’s attitude to mythic narratives from outsi...
It is the aim of this paper to reinterpret Old Greek »singing« deities, the sirens, described mainly...
The thesis has been written as part of the AHRC collaborative research project Greek Epic of the Rom...
This chapter explores one aspect of historiography's debt to epic, and uses this as a basis for some...
Introduction to a special issue of Phoenix on Homer and Near Eastern epic with the following contrib...
The poet of the Odyssey takes care to present the island of Ithaca as a real land, well connected wi...