Sicily and Italy in the Odyssey
The article reviews the arguments for seeing ‘Temese’ (Od. 1.184) and ‘Alybas’ (24.304) as Italian place names, and considers the significance of the Odyssey’s being bookended by putative references to fictitious voyages to and from Italy by ‘Mentes’ and ‘Eperitos’ respectively. Sicilians, moreover,...
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider
2020
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