The following is the abstract of a paper I have recently written: At Odyssey 13.35: ὣς Ὀδυσῆ' ἀσπαστὸν ἔδυ φάος ἠελίοιο, the hero's name is sounded against the verb for the sun's setting at a major structural seam of the poem, where the Phaeacian episode closes and the preparation for the return to Ithaca begins. This brief essay argues that the collocation of Ὀδυσῆ' (Odysē', elided dative of the hero's name) and ἔδυ (edu, root aorist of δύω, "to set, sink, go under") is a de

Could the Odyssey be more than a narrative poem? Perhaps a cleverly coded ritual text from an ancient hero cult? Most people read Homer as narrative poetry or early “history,” or even geography. But the poem itself tells us something more. The Sirens call Odysseus polyainos, meaning “much‑praised,” but in Homeric usage, it means “a man of many encoded narratives.” In other words, the Odyssey is full of riddles in the Homeric sense of the word ainos: symbolic stories with hidd

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