Open AccessWas Calypso Able to Make Odysseus Immortal?
Author(s) -
Krystyna Bartol
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
symbolae philologorum posnaniensium graecae et latinae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2305
pISSN - 0302-7384
DOI - 10.14746/sppgl.2017.xxvii.2.1
Subject(s) - epic , exploit , set (abstract data type) , literature , art , computer science , computer security , programming language
The article, focusing primarily on the Odyssey 5. 135–6, offers a set of remarks designed to foreground the qualities that make the Calypso episode not only interesting as an example of how the epic poet exploits traditional themes and phrases, but exciting as a story of a man’s desire.