title: Odysseus and a Phoenician tale
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metadata.value: Russell, James R.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T12:50:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T12:50:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Russell J. R. Odysseus and a Phoenician tale. Vestnik of Saint Petesrburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2018, vol. 34, issue 2, pp. 233–250.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2018.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10323
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The question of the authorship of the two Homeric epics — whether there was one Homer,
  or two — has vexed scholars since the inception of critical literary study. The more bellicose,
  less inner and mysterious Iliad was by far the more popular poem in antiquity. And although
  the later Aeneid of Virgil tendentiously fuses together war and nostos (homecoming), it is of
  arms and a man, not a man of many ways and wiles, that the Roman poet sings. Odysseus
  is likened, invidiously, to a Canaanite (Phoenician) traveling merchant in his flexibility and
  adaptability — he, the “rootless cosmopolitan” of his remote age, resonates with the predicament
  of alienation of modern man and with the psychological depth of the modern literary
  sensibility, then bellicose, candid, limited Achilles and Aeneas. It is proposed in the article that
  the Odyssey employs the topos of a man traveling in search of lost members of his family, with
  a happy resolution, that seems indeed to have been peculiarly popular over many centuries
  with Phoenicians and Carthaginians. The author suggests indeed that Menaechmus, the name
  of a character in a play based on this topos with a Punic setting that might even have been
  performed, in a Northwest Semitic translation in Qart Ḥadašt (Newtown, i.e., Carthage) itself,
  is merely the very common Hebrew name Menachem. And it is noted that the topos recurs,
  employed in aid of religious propaganda of the Jewish Christians, in the setting of the Pseudo-
  Clementine Recognitions.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 34; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tale
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: man
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: topos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christianity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: paganism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Odysseus and a Phoenician tale
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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