The Raft of Odysseus —— The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey

----- 《奥德修斯的筏:荷马奥德赛的人种学想象》.

ISBN: 9780195130362 出版年：2001 页码：254 Dougherty, Carol Oxford University Press

The Raft of Odysseus looks at the fascinating intersection of traditional myth with an enthnographically-viewed Homeric world. Carol Dougherty argues that the resourcefulness of Odysseus as an adventurer on perilous seas served as an example to Homer's society which also had to adjust in inventive ways to turbulent conditions. The fantastic adventures of Odysseus act as a prism for the experiences of Homer's own listeners--traders, seafarers, storytellers, soldiers--and give us a glimpse into their own world of hopes and fears, 500 years after the Iliadic events were supposed to have happened.