Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic

by Joel Christensen

In The Many-Minded Man, Joel Christensen explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences-both ancient and modern-a therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate.

By reading the Odyssey as an exploration of the constitutive elements of human identity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501752340
• ISBN13: 9781501752346
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up