Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation

Arete and the Odyssey''s Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale "poetics of interrogation" used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus'' kleos, or epic renown. Arete''s interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-Euro...