Frontmatter
List of Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1: Simon Hornblower: Introduction
2: Robert L. Fowler: The nostoi and Archaic Greek Ethnicity
3: Stephanie West: Odysseus' Eclectic Itinerary
4: Irad Malkin: Returning Heroes and Greek Colonists
5: Guglielmo Genovese: nostoi as Heroic Foundations in Southern
Italy: The Traditions about Epeios and Philoktetes
6: Tanja S. Scheer: Women and nostoi
7: Giulia Biffis: nostos, a Journey towards Identity in Athenian
Tragedy
8: N. J. Lowe: Emotional Returns
9: Robin Lane Fox: Macedonians and nostos
10: Catherine Morgan: nostoi and Material Culture in the Area of
the Classical-Hellenistic Ionian and Adriatic Seas
11: Naoíse Mac Sweeney: Failed nostoi and Foundations: Kalchas at
Kolophon
12: Nicholas Purcell: Mediterranean Perspectives on Departure,
Displacement, and Home
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
Simon Hornblower was most recently a Senior Research Fellow in
Classical Studies at All Souls College, Oxford, until his
retirement in 2016. Earlier in his career he was a Prize Fellow at
All Souls College from 1971 until 1977 before becoming Tutorial
Fellow in Ancient History at Oriel College and University CUF
Lecturer. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Classics and
Professor of Ancient History at UCL, where he remained until 2010
(from 2006 as Grote
Professor of Ancient History). Giulia Biffis is Associate Lecturer
in Greek at Birkbeck College, London and Research Associate in
Classics at the University of Reading for this academic year. She
was
previously a Teaching Fellow at the University of Reading and at
the University of Edinburgh after gaining her PhD in Classics at
University College London in 2012. In parallel with her work on
myths of return in ancient Greek literature she is also currently
working on Lykophron's Alexandra and its relationship with female
characterization in the Greek world.
It is a ... volume that will richly repay anyone interested in the
various cultural, historical, psychological, and comparative
aspects of home, home -- leaving, and returning home in the ancient
Mediterranean.
*Carla M. Antonaccio, Journal of Historical Geography of the
Ancient World*
This is a rich and stimulating collection, which is likely to
become a decisive contribution to our understanding of the social
and historical background of the mythological tradition of
nostoi.
*Margalit Finkelberg, The Journal of Hellenic Studies*
A volume that will richly repay anyone interested in the various
cultural, historical, psychological, and comparative aspects of
home, home-leaving, and returning home in the ancient
Mediterranean.
*Carla M. Antonaccio, Orbis Terrarum *
... the collection is a stimulating contribution to cultural
history... [Translated from German]
*William V. Harris, Historische Zeitschrift*
Overall, the volume is strong, with material to engage specialists
in nostoi myths, mobility and settlement patterns, and ancient
identity formation.
*Jessica M. Romney, The Classical Review*
The concept of the returning hero originates with the tales of the
Nostoi of the heroes after the Trojan War, and their travels and
travails across the Mediterranean; but the volume manages to link
these tales to the wider issue of the 'traditions of Mediterranean
settlement'.
*Kostas Vlassopoulos, University of Crete, Greece & Rome*
The topic is presented through the different viewpoints of scholars
specialising in history, literature, myth, and archaeology ... This
volume offers a range of interesting ideas on the theme of nostos,
chiefly by pointing out how difficult it is to return home after
absence, when neither the returner nor the home is the same.
*Claire Gruzelier, Classics for All*
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