A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, marked by the Greek word nostos. This volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of nostos in ancient Greek culture, shedding light on perceptions of...
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A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, marked by the Greek word nostos. This volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of nostos in ancient Greek culture, shedding light on perceptions of home and displacement, and on the foundation myths that shaped ancient Greek identity. Cover -- The Returning Hero: Nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Figures -- Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- PROLOGUE -- NOSTOS AND ITS COGNATES -- THE 'RETURN' THEME IN GREEK LITERATURE AND HISTORY, ARCHAIC TO HELLENISTIC -- Homer -- The Epic Cycle -- Pindar -- Tragedy and Comedy -- The Prose Historians -- Lykophron's Alexandra -- Prose Authors of Nostoi -- EXILE AND RETURN FROM EXILE -- CONCLUSION -- 2: The nostoi and Archaic Greek Ethnicity -- APPENDIX: THE FATE OF RETURNING HEROES -- 3: Odysseus' Eclectic Itinerary -- 4: Returning Heroes and Greek Colonists -- HEROES, NOSTOI, AND GREEK APOIKOI -- COMMUNITY, HOME, AND HOUSEHOLD -- RETURNING TO THE OIKOS AND TO THE POLIS -- EXPATRIATES AND REFUGEES -- CONCLUSIONS -- 5: Nostoi as Heroic Foundations in Southern Italy: The Traditions about Epeios and Philoktetes -- 6: Women and nostoi -- FEMALE MEMORABILIA: WOMEN AS PROTAGONISTS OF NOSTOS TALES? -- ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF WOMEN IN NOSTOS TRADITIONS -- WOMEN AS REASON FOR A NOSTOS -- FEMALE OBSTACLES TO THE NOSTOS OF HEROES: DANGEROUS BOOTY -- FEMALE OBSTACLES TO THE NOSTOS OF THE HERO: DANGEROUS WOMEN ABROAD -- FEMALE OBSTACLES TO THE NOSTOS OF THE HERO: REBELLIOUS BOOTY -- A THREATENED AND DANGEROUS HOMELAND: WOMEN AS DECISIVE FACTORS AT THE END OF THE NOSTOS -- A FEMALE NOSTOS: CHRYSEIS FROM CHRYSA -- WOMEN AND NOSTOI: HAPPY FEMALE HOMECOMINGS? -- CONCLUSION -- 7: Nostos, a Journey towards Identity in Athenian Tragedy -- 8: Emotional Returns -- THE CANON OF EPIC NOSTOI -- 9: Macedonians and nostoi -- 10: Nostoi and Material Culture in the Area of the Classical-Hellenistic Ionian and Adriatic Seas -- SHAPING THE ADRIATIC -- A CIVIC MEMORIAL -- DIPLOMACY BETWEEN COMMUNITIES.
