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This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey --Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors -- is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the Odyssey. But is Odysseus' triumph over the suitors as univocally celebratory as is often assumed? Does the poem contain and even suggest other, darker interpretations of Odysseus' greatest achievement?This book offers a careful analysis of several other revenge plots in the Odyssey -- those of Orestes, Poseidon, Zeus, and the suitors' relatives. It shows how these revenge stories color one another with allusions (explicit and implicit) that connect them and invite audiences to interpret them in light of one another. These stories -- especially Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors -- inevitably turn out to have multiple meanings. One plot of revenge slips into another as the offender in one story becomes a victim to be avenged in the next. As a result, Odysseus turns out to be a much more ambivalent hero than has been commonly accepted. And in the Odyssey's portrayal, revenge is an unstable foundation for a community. Revenge also ends up being a tenuous narrative structure for an epic poem, as a natural end to cycles of vengeance proves elusive. This book offers a radical new reading of the seemingly happy ending of the poem.

Revenge in literature. --- Vengeance dans la littérature --- Homer. --- Revenge in literature

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English drama --- Revenge in literature --- Tragedy --- Théâtre anglais --- Vengeance dans la littérature --- Tragédie --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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Fear in literature --- Guilt in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Revenge in literature --- Peur dans la littérature --- Culpabilité dans la littérature --- Narration --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Vengeance dans la littérature --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Lessing, Doris, --- Roth, Philip.

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Latin drama (Tragedy) --- Revenge in literature. --- Evil in literature. --- Tragédie latine --- Vengeance dans la littérature --- Mal dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Evil in literature --- Revenge in literature --- Tragedies --- Good and evil in literature --- Bien et mal dans la littérature --- Tragédie latine --- Vengeance dans la littérature --- Bien et mal dans la littérature --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, - approximately 4 BC-65 AD - Tragedies --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, - approximately 4 BC-65 AD