One point where the ideas of the worldwide odyssey comes from is a
book called
"Absolut Homer" by Walter Grond (I think he is an Austrian or German
author)
this is a collection of essays of people who Grond has sent on their
journeys to find out the way that fit to them personal and they think
odysseys coud have made
Grond himselfs refer to a book called
"Die Odyssee - Eine Antike Weltumsegelung" by Christine Pellech where
she develops that Homer didnt write about a Greek journey but about a
journey around the world made by the Phonizien - exactly the
Agyptien.
"The wandering of Odysseus shows a detailed describtion of an antike
world tour" is what she said - and of course that this is not the
describtion of only oe jorney. And the Greek didnt travel that much
as the Phonizien did.
So that should be a reason for us to let Odysseus make a 20th
centurie world tour or that is to say a "coming home" (which would
reduce the homeric epos - because of the parts where Odysseus tells
about the past)
am I making sense?
Thinking about the first scene:
should we start with Book V - Odysseus departs from Calypso ??
what/whom would we need for this? Hermes? and Odysseus of course ...
and Calypso
do we need Athene and Zeus before or can just tell this story how it
came that he was allowed to part - or should we cut this part too?
to be continued
Mon
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