Title: The Ulysses theme
Description: This book offers substance to contemporary reflections on manhood by looking at comradeship, heroism, virtue, wandering, trickery, father-son issues, relations between men and a variety of feminine forms, and the intervention of the Gods. The author surveys the range of responses--from Euripides to Kazantzakis--to Ulysses' ambiguous nature, transforming Homeric studies by focusing on literary and psychological analysis.
Subjects: In literature, Literature, Themes, motives, Comparative literature, Odysseus (Greek mythology)
People: Homer