M.E. Ruggerini, V. Szőke, M. Deriu (a cura di), Isole settentrionali, isole mediterranee: letteratura e società, Milano, 151-180, 2019
The aim of this paper is to identify if and how the association between Penelope, Odysseus, and I... more The aim of this paper is to identify if and how the association between Penelope, Odysseus, and Ithaca is active in the Odyssey. Indeed, Penelope and the island – which is depicted in three different places (4.602-608, 9.21-27, 13.242-247) – are ideally opposed to the disturbing ‘loci amoeni’, the dwellings of the temptresses Odysseus meets during his journey. On the one hand, Ithaca is therefore contrasted with these places (cf. 4.605- 608) while, on the other, the island’s prosperity is related to the way it is governed by the hero. As a result, Ithaca is explicitly also connected to Odysseus since, in 10.414-420, his appearance is received by his comrades as if he were Ithaca itself. Similarly, in 13.187- 202, they share in Athena’s intervention, which makes them both unrecognisable and, in the ‘reverse simile’ in 23.231-240, Odysseus is the land on which the shipwrecked sailors land with joy, while Penelope is the shipwrecked sailor persecuted by Poseidon. So, if returning to Ithaca coincides with the hero’s return to his bride, the woman also has her own Ithaca to return to through an emotional journey that takes place on the metaphorical level. However, beyond the metaphor, the hero is committed to surviving and finding his way home, and Penelope is confined within the oikos, where she ‘welcomes’ the suitors. In this painful act of hospitality, the woman embodies the metaconcept of communion as she is the lady of an island which, in the absence of its legitimate basileus, can claim to have remained unchanged. Nevertheless, the return of Odysseus’s agency to Ithaca seems unavoidable, as it can no longer remain metaphorically confined in Penelope’s hands. The metis with which the woman has preserved the island has exhausted its possibilities (cf. 19.156-157). To defeat the disturbing forces and restore order, Ithaca needs Odysseus’s agency. And this calls for a different metis from Penelope’s.
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Si mostrerà, invece, come entrambi i personaggi possano aspirare alla palma di voci satiriche a partire da una lettura, in parallelo, di "Contemplantes" e "Iuppiter tragoedus".
Infine, si mostrerà come il 'pepaideumenos' Luciano, attento conoscitore della tradizione, profondamente calato nel clima della Seconda Sofistica, s’inserisca nel solco di uno degli archetipi indicati nel celeberrimo passo del "Bis accusatus", l’Aristofane delle "Rane" e delle "Tesmoforiazuse".
http://hdl.handle.net/11572/186797
Si mostrerà, invece, come entrambi i personaggi possano aspirare alla palma di voci satiriche a partire da una lettura, in parallelo, di "Contemplantes" e "Iuppiter tragoedus".
Infine, si mostrerà come il 'pepaideumenos' Luciano, attento conoscitore della tradizione, profondamente calato nel clima della Seconda Sofistica, s’inserisca nel solco di uno degli archetipi indicati nel celeberrimo passo del "Bis accusatus", l’Aristofane delle "Rane" e delle "Tesmoforiazuse".
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