Life and work of the Phoenician woman slave: some notes to Od. XV, 417-81
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Sixty-four verses of Eumaios’ “autobiography” are dedicated to the story of his abduction by the slave woman who raised him (Od. XV, 417-81). The passage narrates the life of this woman, who is significantly an anonymous character, from birth to death. An analysis of this episode’s topics and formulae, through the approach of narratology and traditional referentiality, shows the connection of this feminine “biography” with other characters in Homeric works, such as Nausicaa and Eurykleia, as well as mythic heroes and heroines mentioned in epic.
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