coincidence of opposites

... e idea that the Aethiopians live at both extremes of the world is an example of a theme that can best be described as a coincidence of opposites. When the gods attend the stylized feast of the Aeth ... Continue reading

... taneously inhabit the Far West and the Far East. This simultaneity is a mark of a theme that can best be described as a coincidence of opposites. See the comments on I.01.423–425. Here at O.01.022– ... Continue reading

This name for the island of Circe will be a marker for a coincidence of opposites that reveals itself at O.12.001-004.This name for the island of Circe will be a marker for a coincidence of opposites that reveals itself at O ... Continue reading

... land is situated not in the Extreme West but in the Extreme East. So, the location of Aiaia, this island of Circe, is a coincidence of opposites. The achievement of such a coincidence by way of the ... Continue reading

... our parts:Part 1. Teiresias is predicting that Odysseus will meet his death in a mystical moment where he experiences a coincidence of opposites. And what is this mystical moment? It is a point whe ... Continue reading

analysis of the coincidentia oppositorum in the location of Aiaia (in both the extreme east and west), and Okeanos as a key to the emergence of Odysseus from his journey to the und ... Continue reading

... sticks his oar into the ground at the precise moment when the oar is no longer recognized as an oar, O.11.129. In this coincidence of opposites, the oar is now a winnowing shovel, O.11.128—an agri ... Continue reading