Myth and Memory: Navigating History and Heroism is the World of Odysseus

Join us to hear how Homer’s Odyssey serves as a complex historical rhapsody, preserving distorted yet vital memories of the bronze-walled palaces of the Mycenaean Age. We will analyze how these heroic traditions were later filtered through the political and social lens of the Late Archaic Age, the period in which the epics were finally codified into the texts we know today. After examining the poem’s internal logic, we will better understand the great influence that this text impressed upon the decisions of later Greeks.

Presenter: Alexander Clemente is an Adjunct Professor of History at the County College of Morris (CCM) in New Jersey. He is also a continuing speaker at BTL's Leisure Learning series.

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