Imagining Ithaca : Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War

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Imagining Ithaca : Nostos and Nostalgia Since the Great War'Though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one', said Charles Dickens, 'stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.' The ancient Greek word nostos, meaning homecoming or return, has a commensurate power and mystique. Irish philosopher poet John Moriarty described it as 'a teeming word a haunted word a word to conjure with'. The most celebrated and culturally enduring nostos is that of Homer's Odysseus who

βλέπουμε και τις χαρούμενες στιγμές

cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance

ήρεµη και ικανοποιηµένη απ’ τη ζωή της

a warrior without her army

The dialogue closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context

a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond

Examining the relationship between the historical Socrates and the Platonic character

"which describes both the historical theatrical group and its modern figurative meaning as a group of people with persistent views

εξερευνά μαζί του τη γύρω περιοχή

mainly Stoic

his is an epic tale of the lengths to which man will go in the ultimate quest for power and survival

A critical appendix looks at all the textual points that substantially affect the understanding and appreciation of the elegies