Ideal Spatiality According To Menelaus: Odysseus Back To Argos

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Published 13-12-2016
Francis Larran

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As a poem focusing on the notion of distance, the Odyssey elaborates on the concepts of proximity and distance, dispersion and concentration, topographical and topological contacts at a time in which archaic aristocracies were involved in a complex interplay of nuanced identities. First, at the local level, should they live close to the other members of the polis? Second, on a more general level, should they look at the continental Greece or, alternatively, to the known world, within a network of connected cities? For Menelaus, seeking to be close to Odysseus, a hero born in the distant Ithaca, means conciliating two antagonist spatialities in an aristocratic and archaic utopia.

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