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Séquences trifonctionnelles Indo-Européennes dans l'Odyssée

par Meulder, Marcel
Référence Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, 28, 1, page (17-39)
Publication Publié, 2002

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Describing Ulysses' return to Ithaca, Homer uses the Indo-European trifunctionality: Ulysses facing Iros and the Pretenders plays at prophesying, at wrestling, at being guest; alone Ulysses receives from Penelope a garment, a weapon and foot-wears - i.e. the conventional signs of the investiture of the Indo-European king; he retrieves his name, his bow and his wife. The discovery strengthens the holomologies between the Odyssey and other epic works, questions any interpretations of the poem and tells in favour of the importance of late traditions.