A deusa compõe um “mito”: o jovem Odisseu em busca de veneno (Odisseia I, 255-68)
Authors: Werner Christian 
Published: June 2015

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">This paper explores the inter- and extradiegetical </span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">functions of a story about Odysseus narrated by Athena to Telemachos </span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">in </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-ItalicA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-ItalicA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Odyssey </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">1, 255-68. It is argued that the representation of Odysseus </span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">in search of poison for his arrows need not to be thought first and f</span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">oremost as a non-Homeric element or a morally disturbing action, </span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">for it may be analyzed by means of epic themes (specially by the </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-ItalicA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-ItalicA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">mêtis</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">-megatheme) explored not only in the </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-ItalicA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-ItalicA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Odyssey </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">but in the </span><em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-ItalicA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-ItalicA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Iliad </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">as </span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">well. Besides, this story anticipates and condenses the plot of the </span><span style="font-family: 'Aldine401BT-RomanA','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Aldine401BT-RomanA;">poem.</span></p>