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Greek Mythology and Religion

The Raft of Odysseus

The Ethnographic Imagination of Homer's Odyssey

by Carol Dougherty

A study of the Odyssey in the context of early Greek seafaring, trade and colonisation. Dougherty reads Odysseus' encounters with strange peoples as a reflection of the Greek experience of new lands.

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