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Hace 2 días · Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay wrote two books, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (1994) and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming (2002), which relate the Iliad and the Odyssey to posttraumatic stress disorder and moral injury as seen in the rehabilitation histories of combat veteran patients.
Hace 5 días · Moreover, the mythical allure of "Ithaca" reminded me of Odysseus’ epic return home – the Odyssey’s inclusion on my high school’s sophomore reading list may have influenced this association. While my own journey to Cornell was substantially shorter, only a 3 ½ hour drive, I envisioned it representing a similarly profound homecoming.
Hace 5 días · By Annabel Sampson. 17 May 2024. Ithaca, the long-lost home of Homer’s Odysseus, is an island steeped in 3,000 years of myth. Revered through association: to say its reputation precedes it would be an understatement.
Hace 2 días · In ancient Mesopotamia, many medical disorders were attributed to ghosts, including mental problems faced by men who had spent years at war. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Over the past century, the modern medical understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder has shifted from the World War I-era diagnosis of ...
Hace 5 días · The Odyssey: A Play adapted by Mary Zimmerman from Homer’s epic poem, translated by Robert Fitzgerald.. Directed by Carlo Feliciani Ojeda (4th year directing student) Mary Zimmerman, renowned director and playwright, transformed the Greek epic of Odysseus and his 20-year journey home into a captivating play in her characteristically witty and irreverent way with contemporary language and ...
Hace 3 días · not the start of the Trojan War, which began with the Judgment of Paris and the Abduction of Helen and was fought for ten years. Nor does the poem start at the beginning of Odysseus’ journey home, which has been in progress for almost as many years as the war. Instead, it begins when nothing much seems to be happening at all; Odysseus, his son, and his wife are all stuck in a state of ...
Hace 5 días · Answer: A fig tree. After Odysseus passed the Sirens, they came to the lairs of the monsters, the Scylla and the Charybdis. The Scylla was a six-headed monster that lived in a cave on one side of the strait that Odysseus had to cross. The Charybdis was a water nymph that created a whirlpool every time she sucked in water, and resided in the ...
