Ή 'Οδύσσεια υπό νέον φως
Part of : Πλάτων : περιοδικό της Εταιρείας Ελλήνων Φιλολόγων ; Vol.ΚΘ, No.57-58, 1977, pages 3-25
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Odyssey is the greatest problem of all litarary men. Already since the Antiquity Xenon and Ellanicos had said «Odyssey and Iliad are not of the same man» and Krates the Mallotes was founding unsimilar elements on them. In our modern times other ones accept that an original kernel was broaded, and other believe that Odyssey and Iliad are supplements from self-ending small songs etc. Also they are refering to the geographical confusion of the Odyssey as well as to internal reasons, as for example to the disagreement of the poem with the whole song. The present work answers to these problems, estimated as basicals, of the genuinity of these two masterpieces, which are due mainly to a misunderstanding of the poet, a) In what concerns the wandering about places, with the elements of days of sailing direction, that is winds, place, rising and setting of the stars, it is proved that the end of Ulysses wanderings was not as one believes Sicily that Scylla and Charybdis were situated in the narrow pass of Giblartar, and the island of the sun Thrinacia was outside of Gibraltar, and so are placed all the wandering places of Ulysses without conflicts and differences of opinion, b) It is proved at an undisputable manner, that the Homerical island Ithaca is neither Leucas (Dörpfeld) nor Cephallinia (Marinatos) etc. but the island of our days Ithaca, and so is given a convincing answer to the question «what was Doulichion» which has worried so much geographers and literary men, and created the problem of Ithaca, c) The believed disagreement between the proem and the rest of the song is not real, but is due to the fact that the poet does not keep the chronological order, and begins almost from the end in médias res, and with a retrograding and very technical construction (synthesis) gives all the preceding events. With these observations is shed light to the Homerical problem which is connected with Odysse and which seems to have been created more from a bad calculation of the various geographers and scholars ( literary men) than from serious and substantial internal reasons of the poem.
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