Publication: L'attesa di Argo, ovvero da Nestore a Nestore
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2006-08-21T10:18:11Z
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Inside Homeric poems different temporal aspects interact: Argus the dog is witness of the journey from Ithaca to Troy and back to Ithaca; Nestor, a man of the past and a bearer of a warlike memory, represents pre-Iliadic world; Odysseus coming back to Ithaca symbolizes the return to the past, a sort of restoration. But it is not a “new” time; on the contrary, the Iliadic world, as a result of cultural elaboration, follows a “norm”: the Odyssiac world of “before” and “after” is crossed by the Iliadic world that unintentionally perturbs it and casts it into question. Iliadic epic poetry tells us who we should mean to be, while Nestor, witness of a passing Age, and the epic of Odyssey, that is the continuation of that Age, tells us who we are.
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poemi omerici, Argo, Nestore, homeric poems, Argus, Nestor