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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Glouberman, Mark

Titel

The Birth of Death in Athens and Jerusalem

Ist Teil von

• The Midwest quarterly (Pittsburg), 2007, Vol.48 (2), p.210

Ort / Verlag

Pittsburg: Pittsburg State University - Midwest Quarterly

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• While those seeking a Genesis for the Odyssey would therefore be hasty to scratch Hesiod's work from the running just on the ground that it pulls towards the theogonie, I believe that another Hellenic horse, precisely the one that the alignment of the Odyssey with Exodus suggests, has the inside track: the Iliad. The incest is a grotesque version of the itself grotesque reinsertion of the sons into the mother's womb; the self-immolation, the blinding, a grotesque version of the itself grotesque castration.