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Carol Dougherty: “Nobody’s Home: Metis, Improvisation, and the Instability of Return in Homer’s Odyssey”

Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Annual Carl Deppe Lecture with Professor Carol Dougherty Wellesley College This talk considers Homer’s Odyssey in light of recent work in improvisatory studies to suggest that returning home is a creative rather than restorative act. Odysseus is famous for his mētis, exactly the kind of practical reasoning upon […]

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