The Wooden Horse From Odysseus to Socrates

by Zeruneith, Keld

ISBN13: 9781590200414

ISBN10: 1590200411

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2008-09-30

Publisher(s): Harry N. Abrams

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Summary

When Odysseus conceived the so-called "Trojan Horse" to overcome the stalemate in the Trojan War, something more profound was being established: resolution through strategic thinking rather than brute physical conflict-a paradigm shift signaling nothing less than the liberation of the modern mind.

Author Biography

Keld Zeruneith is an internationally recognized literary scholar and historian. Among his many awards is the Gyldendal Prize, Denmark's most distinguished literary honor, which was awarded for The Wooden Horse upon its publication there in 2004.

Acknowledgments	p. 9
Translator's Note	p. 10
Foreword	p. 11
Odysseus
The Wooden Horse-The Myth of Discursivity	p. 21
The Homeric Project	p. 32
The Myth and Metaphor of "Homer"	p. 32
Homer as Implicit Narrative Consciousness	p. 38
The Oral Tradition and the Crisis Works	p. 41
The Homeric Hero Complex	p. 44
The Psychological Universe	p. 52
Structure and Intertextuality	p. 56
Compositional Reflection and Counter-reflection	p. 62
Stages of Consciousness	p. 66
Unifying Narrative Elements	p. 68
Narrative Hierarchy, Beauty and Enchantment	p. 75
Dual Religiosity	p. 86
Chthonic and Olympian Gods	p. 86
The Great Mother	p. 89
The Origins and Gods of Olympos	p. 101
Fate and Free Will	p. 103
Delusion	p. 113
Religious Duplicity	p. 118
Athene and the Apple of Discord-On Eros, Eris and Metis	p. 119
Eros and eris	p. 119
Prehistory	p. 121
Division and Unification	p. 123
Athene-Goddess of metis	p. 125
The Telemachy	p. 136
The Maternal Bond	p. 136
Becoming Independent	p. 141
The Archetype of the Journey	p. 145
Erotic Development	p. 149
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World	p. 151
Odysseus	p. 160
"The Man"	p. 160
The Paradigm of Development	p. 161
Character Profile	p. 164
Mother and Son	p. 179
The Wanderings	p. 191
The Repressed and the Voyager	p. 191
Emblematics	p. 195
Composition	p. 198
The Substance and Meaning of the Adventures	p. 199
The Golden Age Society-The Phaiakians	p. 218
The Trials of Homecoming	p. 226
Reunion	p. 226
Penelope	p. 233
The Power of the Bow	p. 242
The New Year's Festival-As Mythical Subtext	p. 248
The Bed	p. 253
The Homeric Utopia	p. 258
The telos of Revenge	p. 258
The End of Strife	p. 260
The Royal Ideal	p. 262
Odysseus as an Ideal Figure	p. 265
Homer the Utopian	p. 267
Socrates
The Subjective and Reflective Breakthrough in Poetry and Philosophy	p. 277
Hesiod as Transitional Poet	p. 281
The Calling of the Poet	p. 281
Family Tree and Succession	p. 286
Misogyny	p. 289
Eros and Conflict	p. 292
Justice and Utopia	p. 294
The Lyrical Sense of Self	p. 299
Archilochus-Warrior Poet	p. 299
Sappho-The Tenth Muse	p. 306
Presocratic Thought	p. 311
A Common Field of Meaning	p. 311
Anaximander's apeiron	p. 313
Projections and Monotheism-Xenophanes	p. 316
Heraclitus-The Man Who Would Be Obscure	p. 317
Metempsychosis-Pythagoras	p. 323
The Logical Necessity of Thought-Parmenides	p. 324
Strife and Love as Philosophical Principles-Empedocles	p. 325
Conclusion	p. 328
The Life and Form of Tragedy	p. 329
The Return of Myth-Dithyramb and Genesis	p. 329
Dramaturgy	p. 333
Tragedy's Athens	p. 336
Tragedy According to Aristotle	p. 338
Aeschylus	p. 344
The Poet from Eleusis	p. 344
The Trilogy as Dramatic Necessity	p. 347
The Persians	p. 348
Seven Against Thebes	p. 351
The Suppliant Maidens	p. 354
The Fire-Bringer-Prometheus Bound	p. 358
The Oresteia: Metaphorical Paraphrase	p. 363
Zeus Teleios	p. 366
Suffering and Learning	p. 371
Hubris-The Sure Road to Perdition	p. 374
Choice and Sacrifice	p. 379
Klytemnestra	p. 382
Helen-The Dialectic Between eros and eris	p. 388
The Untrustworthy Seer	p. 391
The Matricide	p. 392
The lex talionis of Blood Vengeance	p. 397
The Principle of Father Power	p. 400
Sophocles	p. 409
Metaphysical Indeterminacy	p. 409
The daimon of the Tragic Hero	p. 414
Ajax-The Steadfast Tragic Hero	p. 415
Antigone-The Tragic Heroine	p. 418
Oedipus the King-Riddle and Prehistory	p. 424
The Riddle Solver	p. 427
Kreon-The Pragmatic Politician	p. 433
Wife-Mother	p. 433
Becoming Your Own Self	p. 437
Oedipus at Colonus-A Gift to Mankind	p. 440
Guilt Free and Sacred	p. 442
The Tempters	p. 444
Apotheosis	p. 446
Philoktetes-A Moral Mobilization-Tract	p. 448
The Wound, the Bow and the Weapon of the Tongue	p. 450
Euripides	p. 456
Poet of Crisis	p. 456
Odysseus' Cynicism	p. 461
Iphigenia at Aulis-The Sacrifice	p. 464
Elektra-The Matricide	p. 468
Orestes-The Erinyes of Conscience	p. 474
Iphigenia at Tauris-The Reconciliation	p. 476
Medea-Uncontrolled Passion	p. 478
Hippolytos-Sexual Purism	p. 482
The Bacchae-A Vision	p. 487
The End of Tragedy	p. 493
Socrates	p. 496
The Unity of Plato's Work	p. 496
Utopia and telos	p. 499
"Socrates"	p. 503
Eros-The Path to Self-Development	p. 506
Daimonion	p. 513
The Dialectical Method-The Paradox of the Oral Tradition	p. 515
Sex and State-Xanthippe and the Role of Women in Democracy	p. 523
The Free Man and the Lover of Boys	p. 532
Diotima	p. 535
Accusation, Judgement, and Death	p. 537
The Utopian State	p. 547
The Fulfillment of the Prefiguration	p. 556
Notes	p. 562
Bibliography	p. 591
Index	p. 597
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