tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post1397212734533857350..comments2023-04-05T08:04:07.514-04:00Comments on Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2011.09.47Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-60718183569030016882011-09-24T11:19:30.907-04:002011-09-24T11:19:30.907-04:00Its hard to know what the reviewr means by this:
...Its hard to know what the reviewr means by this:<br /><br />"For to retell stories is not the same thing as being sympathetic to them. This point is well made in the last essay, Thomas Jenkins on two French Heavy Metal retellings of the Odyssey from the late 60s and early 80s. Neither was comfortable with the idea that Odysseus could be content to go home to stay and live happily ever after with Penelope."<br /><br />It seems t imply that Homer has Odysseus staying home living happily ever after (if Homer isn't the contrast, then what?). But, of course, no such story is to be found in Homer.Anebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05865020806337781472noreply@blogger.com