Reading the Odyssey:
Selected Interpretive Essays
Edited and introduced by Seth L. Schein

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	3
	Land and Sacrifice in the Odyssey: A Study of Religious and Mythical Meanings	33
	Death with Two Faces	55
	The Adventures in the Odyssey	63
	Penelope and the Suitors	133
	Dread Goddess Revisited	141
	Penelope's Perspective: Character from Plot	163
	The Refusal of Odysseus	185
	The Song of the Sirens	191
	Kleos and Its Ironies in the Odyssey	201
	Composition by Theme and the Metis of the Odyssey	223
	Bibliography	239
	Contributors	253
	Index of Passages Discussed and Cited	257
	General Index	271

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