No open-access location is known for this record yet.
No open-access location is known for this record yet.
The island of Calypso, as depicted in Homer’s Odyssey, has often been seen as a sinister idyll that has some features in common with the underworld, and Calypso herself has been described in modern scholarship as a veiled representative of death. Proponents of this interpretation, which was formulated more than one hundred years ago and remains popular today, have often made use of comparative arguments that are based on similarities to underworldepisodes in early Greek epic, or IndoEuropean etymologies of the name Calypso, or the supposed influence of ancient Near Eastern mythology (Ištar/Gilgameš). The present contribution argues that none of these comparative approaches have been successful, and that the underworldtheory should be abandoned. Some key passages of the Calypsoepisode can be rescued from past misinterpretation.
Loading…
Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.