Odysseus, ingestive rhetoric, and Euripides' Cyclops.

From: Helios | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Worman, Nancy | Copyright information

There is an ancient tie between the feast and the spoken word.

M. Bakhtin

If Odysseus has a sophistic and mercenary bent in tragic depiction, comic fragments suggest that he also comes to be associated with greedy, all-belly figures. (1) W. B. Stanford has noted this evolution in Odysseus's character, connecting his later profile as a glutton to his food-oriented arguments in Iliad 19 and especially to his focus on the belly's needs in the Odyssey. (2) But nei...

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