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A Cretan Odyssey, Part 1

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2015-09-17

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Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
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Nagy, Gregory. 2015.09.17. "A Cretan Odyssey, Part 1." Classical Inquiries. http://nrs.harvard.edu/ urn-3:hul.eresource:Classical_Inquiries.

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The concept of “the Cretan Odyssey”—or, better, “a Cretan Odyssey”—is reflected in the “lying tales” of Odysseus in the Odyssey. These tales give the medium of Homeric poetry an opportunity to open windows into an Odyssey that we do not know. In the alternative universe of a “Cretan Odyssey,” the adventures of Odysseus take place in the exotic context of Minoan­ Mycenaean civilization as centered on the island of Crete.

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