Troublesome Narratives in The Odyssey

ZECCHIN DE FASANO, GRACIELA C.

PALO ALTO. CALIFORNIA

Conferencia; CLASSICS TALKS.; 2014

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

FINKELBERG (1998, pp.24-27) has maintained that Homer conceived his story as a true story and that the implied poetics inside the epic poetry is a "Poetics of truth" opposite to the "Poetics of fiction" that we can find in much later texts in Greek literature (RICHARDSON, 1996, pp. 393-402). The narrative diversity presented by Iliad and Odyssey makes it very difficult to identify them with the poetry that the own Homer himself seems to propose. I will therefore refer to this problematic aspect, its implementation in the discursive typology of Odyssey, especially in the stories that I have called "apocryphal biographies" and how this type of account is registered in the proem and the full plot of Odyssey.