mutually contradictory local variations in mythmaking

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Odyssey 3.130-183/ anchor comment on two variant myths in Odyssey 3 and Odyssey 4, part 1

Epitomized from Nagy 2015 §§69–75: [§69] In Odyssey O.03.130–183, old Nestor is telling a tale to young Telemachus about the various homecomings of the Achaeans after they succeede ... Continue reading

Odyssey 4.343-344/ anchor comment on: two variant myths in Odyssey 3 and Odyssey 4, part 2

... . Nor, as I also argue, did they ever really need to be reconciled. In Homeric poetry, there is a built-in awareness of mutually contradictory local variations in mythmaking, and there are many examples where the poetry shows ... Continue reading