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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title page 5 Copyright information 6 Contents 7 Illustrations 9 Contributors 10 Acknowledgments 13 From the Editors 13 Jessica Blum 13 Thomas Biggs 14 Abbreviations 15 Chapter 1 Introduction 17 Part I Odyssean Journeys 25 Introduction 25 Chapter 2 In and Out of the Golden Age: A Hesiodic Reading of the Odyssey 27 Chapter 3 Pompe in the Odyssey 47 3.1 The Nature of Pompe 48 3.2 Minor Cases of Pompe 52 3.3 The Pompe of Odysseus and the Program of the Poem 55 3.4 Odysseus' Failed Cases of Pompe 59 3.5 Successful Pompe from Alkinoös 65 3.6 Conclusion 73 Chapter 4 ''What Country, Friends, is This?'' Geography and Exemplarity in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica 75 4.1 Roman Nostos 78 4.2 Home and Homer 81 4.3 Genre and the Journey 83 4.4 Into the Wild: Genre and Geography 88 4.5 In Hercules' Wake 100 4.6 Conclusion 103 Part II Gendered Maps 105 Introduction 105 Chapter 5 Wandering, Love, and Home in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica and Heliodorus' Aethiopica 107 Chapter 6 Heroes and Homemakers in Xenophon 124 6.1 Xenophon's Conception of Home 128 6.2 Home as Survival 131 6.3 Home Makers 135 6.4 Home in Anabasis 138 Chapter 7 Women's Travels in the Aeneid 146 Part III R

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Author

THOMAS BIGGS and JESSICA BLUM

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction