HEL-UA 333 - Greek Diaspora: Odyssean Metaphors from Homer to Angelopoulos

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New York University

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Description:

Greek stories and myths of dispersal, settlement, and return have provided Western culture with some of its foundational fictions. This course examines how some of these structuring metaphors and foundational narratives-notions of home and exile-have informed the Greeks' own stories in a variety of geographical and historical contexts and times: (1) in the historical diaspora communities of Greeks in Renaissance Venice; in certain European urban centers prior to nation-building in the 18th-century Enlightenment; in Alexandria and Smyrna (now Izmir) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and in Cyprus; and (2) among the Greeks of the United States.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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