Reading the Odyssey by Seth L. Schein

Author:Seth L. Schein [Schein, Seth L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691214146
Publisher: Princeton UP
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

28 U. v. Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Homerische Untersuchungen, p. 144: “The instructions for the journey to Hades have taken the place of the instructions for the adventures of the twelfth book. After 10.489 came the transitional thought, “‘Certainly you must sail tomorrow, but that will lead you into new dangers,’” 12.38-142. Again in Die Heimkehr des Odysseus, p. 79, he says, “If Odysseus summons up the soul of Teiresias because he is to undertake more journeys after returning home, then the whole Nekyia has been inserted into the apologue by someone who wanted to tack on the Thesprotis” Similarly Erich Bethe, Homer II (Leipzig and Berlin, 1922), pp. 136f.: “He (the man revising the poem) fitted the Nekyia carefully into the poem at its beginning and end. He did this by using Circe’s advice 10.490 and the return to her 12.1 as well as the Elpenor episode.” Erwin Rohde, Kleine Schriften II (Tubingen and Leipzig, 1901), p. 268, also does not doubt this interpolation.

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