The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

by Van Der Laan

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics--tools for living developed in poetry--to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets turned to the Odyssey for narratives of recovery and aftermath. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey from myriad sources. Situating major works by Petrarch,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778295
• ISBN13: 9780198778295
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"