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Odysseus or in Latin, Ulysses, is kind of literary character who, by his special qualities and his adventures, gives writers many possibilities of variation in reworking the myth. The demand of the audience as well as the authors’ desire for originality provide the main motive of the myth to be presented in a new way. Thanks to it, every writer, who undertakes a piece of work, tries to produce a new portrait of the well-known mythical hero. The source of variation in the myth can also be the natural tendency of authors to assimilate the old material to contemporary fashions and customs1. Problems of morality must have also arisen in the development of the myth over the centuries. Another cause of change in the traditional material lies in the writer’s technical inventions. All of these factors are interesting enough to the present author in presenting the many faces of the Homeric hero, Odysseus, which have changed over the course of time.
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The article, focusing primarily on the Odyssey 5. 135–6, offers a set of remarks designed to foreground the qualities that make the Calypso episode not only interesting as an example of how the epic poet exploits traditional themes and phrases, but exciting as a story of a man’s desire.
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The paper focuses on the connections between Homeric poems, mainly Odyssey and the Polish drama Odysseus Crying by the Polish playwright Roman Brandstaetter, especially in the light of the motif of weeping and crying.
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We read The Odyssey as a lesson in “goodwill”. This is an indispensable concept, because it allows us to overcome the limitations resulting from the assumptions made by Carl Schmitt when he made the distinction between friends and ene-mies the original experience of the world. The “Greekness” of the attitude of goodwill, whose deficit has painfully affected us in Europe, consists in a reli-giousness transformed by the lesson of enlightenment, which in a secular world means the conviction that wisdom and the ability to survive, often granted to Homer’s protagonists by gods who are in conflict, may now be given to us through those who come to us from a world which is not ours. Since it is an alien that allows us to find out what we are like, it is worth cultivating the tradition of “hospitality”, which Derrida gives a new dimension seen from the point of view of contemporary migratory movements.
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Th e paper discusses three grand personalities of antiquity: Cicero, Ovid and Seneca in the circumstances of their exile, Th eir attitudes to the punishment received (whose severity varied) were diverse. Nevertheless, all they left a trace in the shape of literary works and letters. Upon reading, one discovers ambiguous attitudes towards their per-sonal misfortunes. Finally, the situation of the exiles and their return may be compared with the archetypal fi gure of Odysseus.
Colloquia Litteraria
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2022
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vol. 33
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issue 2
127-153
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The Return of Odysseus is a multifaceted drama, which speaks about the fate ofman, about the impossibility of escaping from destiny. It is an interpretation ofthe Odyssey according to Wyspianski. Completely different, stripped of hypocrisy,true, showing a man, not a hero. It is also the most beautiful example of how muchthe playwright based his work on the legacy of antiquity, how much Greek culturemattered to him. It shows an incredible admiration and desire to understand antiquity, but also a desire to find in it himself, his own views, philosophy, spiritualpath. Wyspianski proves that one’s own interpretations can lead to the discovery ofnew aspects of already known works. Every difference shown in this article proveshow strong a link the two works share
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In den präsentierten Überlegungen stelle ich Mythen als – bisher einseitig gelesene – Metaphern der Reise der menschlichen Rationalität auf der Suche nach Macht und Wissen (Ödipus), Gewinnmaximierung (Sisyphos), Autonomie (Odysseus) vor. Die vorgestellten Neuinterpretationen zeigen die "andere" Seite der Werte, denen wir bereits Bedeutung gegeben haben. Odysseus verdankt seine Weisheit den Frauen, denen er begegnet. Die Bestrafung des Sisyphos, der einen Felsbrocken den Berg hinauf zu rollen hatte, ist die Essenz des entfremdeten Lebens. Der Held Ödipus verlor gegen das Schicksal, aber am Ende seines Lebens verkörperte er Weisheit und Erfüllung. Und der moderne Mensch – der Mensch des Anthropozäns? Er verliert sich in der Herrschaft über die Erde und auf der Erde. Seine Entwicklung und sein Wachstum bringen keinen Aufschwung. Macht und Wissen garantieren keine Freiheit. Die Autonomie und Selbsterkenntnis der Moderne drohen mit Selbstzerstörung. Die Bedrohung durch die Klimakrise offenbart das Janusgesicht zeitgenössischer Werte.
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The article presents myths as one-sided metaphors of the journey of human rationality in search of power and knowledge (Oedipus), profit maximization (Sisyphus), autonomy (Odysseus). The presented reinterpretations show the “other” side of the values to which we have already given meaning. Ulysses owes his wisdom to the women he meets. Sisyphus' punishment of rolling a boulder up a mountain is the essence of alienated life. The hero Oedipus lost to fate, but at the end of his life he personified wisdom and fulfillment. And the modern human-“Anthropoceneman”? He loses himself in dominion on and over the Earth. His development and growth do not lead to flourishment. Power and knowledge do not guarantee freedom. The autonomy and self-knowledge of modernity threaten the human with self-destruct. The threat of the climate crisis reveals the Janus face of contemporary values.
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W prezentowanych rozważaniach przedstawiam mity jako dotąd jednostronnie odczytywane metafory podróży ludzkiej racjonalności w poszukiwaniu władzy i wiedzy (Edyp), maksymalizacji zysku (Syzyf), autonomii (Odys). Zaprezentowane reinterpretacje ukazują „inną” stronę wartości, którym już nadaliśmy znaczenie. Ulisses swoją mądrość zawdzięcza napotkanym kobietom. Kara Syzyfa – wtaczanie głazu na górę – to esencja wyalienowanego życia. Heros Edyp przegrał z fatum, ale u kresu życia uosabiał mądrość i spełnienie. A współczesny człowiek, „antropoceńczyk”? Zatraca się w panowaniu nad Ziemią i na Ziemi. Jego rozwój i wzrost nie jest rozkwitem. Władza i wiedza nie zapewniają wolności. Autonomia i samowiedza nowoczesności grożą samozagładą. Zagrożenie kryzysem klimatycznym odsłania Janusowe oblicze współczesnych wartości.
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The paper focuses on the repeated and systematic references to the figure of Ulysses in the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Eugene Thacker, and Reza Negarestani. These are not random occurrences; Ulysses represents a key figure in the mutually interconnected visions and reflections related to the idea of a “world without people” that binds the named authors implicitly and explicitly to the originally Dantean imagery. Through a detailed exposition of the Ulyssean positions of the philosophers in question, the essay demonstrates twofold: first, that the “nihilistic branch” of speculative realism can be read as a specific inversion of the Dantean agenda, and second, that in light of the arguments of “transcendental nihilism” and the logical radicalization of the Ulyssean figure, Dante’s Divine Comedy can be read as an anachronistic speculative project.
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The aim of the article is the analysis of Odysseus in Bolesław Miciński’s essay Podróże do piekieł (“Journeys to Hell”). The main purpose is to show that the philosopher creates a new Odysseus described by specific epiteton ornans which underlines wisdom not the cunning of Homer’s hero. What is more, Miciński builds his vision of Odysseus using psychoanalysis and his own understanding of classicism. He treats these two perspectives as instruments to extract particular features of Odysseus. Miciński is building a new myth of Odysseus, the myth of homo rationalis, perfect ratio which can save the humanistic subjectivity in the XXth century.
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Celem artykułu jest dokonanie analizy postaci Odyseusza wykreowanej w Podróżach do piekieł Bolesława Micińskiego, a także ukazanie, że twórczość Micińskiego ma ponadczasowy charakter i stanowi wybitny przykład eseju filozoficznego. Za kluczowe w interpretacji eseisty uważa się jego rozumienie klasycyzmu i psychoanalizy, które mają charakter instrumentalny i służą odkryciu prawdy o Odyseuszu. Głównym trzonem analizy eseju Micińskiego jest przyjęty przez niego epiteton ornans „przemądry”, który narzuca postrzeganie Odyseusza jako nie przebiegłego żołnierza, ale mędrca. Odyseusz w eseju Micińskiego na powrót staje się mitem, ale mitem człowieka rozumnego, doskonałego pierwowzoru, który ma nas poprowadzić ku lepszemu zrozumieniu humanistycznej podmiotowości.
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Od kiedy w roku 1902 Peter Jensen wynotował podobieństwa między Odyseją i Eposem o Gilgameszu i opowiedział się za zależnością homeryckiego poematu od mezopotamskiego eposu, uczeni spierają się o naturę relacji między poematami. Niniejszy artykuł stawia sobie za cel wykazanie, że między Eposem o Gilgameszu a Odyseją istnieje nie tylko wiele epizodycznych podobieństw, ale że obiektywna narracja o powrocie Odyseusza na Itakę (Od. 5-13) jest powtórzeniem fabuły wyprawy Gilgamesza po nieśmiertelność (tabliczki IX-XI): epizod dotarcia Gilgamesza do góry Maszu i spotkania Siduri znajduje paralelę w przebywaniu Odyseusza na Ogygii u nimfy Kalipso. Przeprawa Gilgamesza do Dilmun przypomina przeprawę Odyseusza z Ogygii na Scherię. Dilmun i Utanapisztim odpowiadają w wielu elementach Scherii i Alkinoosowi. Wreszcie, istnieją analogie między powrotem Gilgamesza do Uruk a powrotem Odyseusza na Itakę. Wniosek o fabularnym podobieństwie między obiektywną narracją o powrocie Odyseusza a opowieścią o wyprawie Gilgamesza po nieśmiertelność może posłużyć jako argument dla zwolenników tezy o zależności jednego poematu od drugiego.
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Since 1902 when Peter Jensen advanced a thesis about the dependence of the Odyssey on the Epic of Gilgamesh, scholars have argued about the nature of the relationship between the two poems. This article aims to show that there are many similarities between the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey not only in episodes, but also that the objective narrative of Odysseus’s return to Ithaca (Od. 5-13) is a repetition of the plot from Gilgamesh’s quest for immortality (Tablets IX- XI): the episode of Gilgamesh’s arrival to the Mount Mashu and his encounter with Siduri finds its parallel in Odysseus’ stay in Ogygia at nymph Calypso’s. Gilgamesh’s crossing of the sea to Dilmun resembles Odysseus’ crossing of the sea from Ogygia to Scheria. Dilmun and its ruler Utanapishtim correspond in many aspects to Scheria and Alcinous. Finally, there are parallels between Gilgamesh’s return to Uruk and Odysseus journey to Ithaca. The conclusion about the existence of a narrative analogy between the objective narration of the Odysseus return in Odyssey and the Gilgamesh’s quest for immortality deepens the relationship between the two poems.
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