The Typical Scene of Feasting in Circe’s Episode in the Odyssey (X, 230-477)

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https://doi.org/10.35699/1983-3636.2025.57929

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typical scene, feasting, episode, Odyssey, Circe

Abstract

This article, as its title suggests, aims to investigate the typical scene of feasting (structural in this poem) in the episode of Circe in the Odyssey, comparing it with the most common and expected pattern of this scene and pointing out the points where (in relation to this pattern) there is a greater continuity or divergence and difference, in order to try to understand these continuities or differences in the singular context of this episode in the set of Odysseus’ narratives to the Phaeacians about his marvelous journeys on his return from the Trojan War; because Circe is a sorceress nymph with the dangerous ability to transform men into different animals and, from animals, re-transform them into men younger than before.

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2025-06-02

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Dossiê Comemorativo em Homenagem ao Prof. Jacyntho Lins Brandão – Parte 2

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The Typical Scene of Feasting in Circe’s Episode in the Odyssey (X, 230-477). (2025). Nuntius Antiquus, 21(1), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.35699/1983-3636.2025.57929