Household Treasures and Political Pursuits: A Reading of Three Locales in Homer's Odyssey

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Brief Overview

This paper considers the relationship between the oikos and polis by exploring the characters and communities of three locales in Homer’s Odyssey. I suggest that the poem voices both a desire for the political and a treasuring of the household.

Author

• Carol Kowara, The University of Chicago