Odisseu, Penélope e Telêmaco: as personagens da Odisseia e a construção da fama heroica

Abstract

We can define as the content of the epic tradition a history of the cosmos, the divine, the gods, and ways of facing life and death. Between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE, the names of Homer and Hesiod came to occupy the center of this tradition. This monographic work presents an analysis of Homeric and hesiodic poems, in order to understand the heroic tradition, in addition to the set of poems that we can call the Epic Cycle, which contains the history of the two great wars, those against Thebes and Troy. The Iliad and the Odyssey are poems that deal with the actions of men, better, stronger and more powerful, that is, the lineage, already extinct, of heroes. Our goal was to understand the end of the heroic tradition from the Odyssey, which can be considered as the farewell poem for the whole heroic world of Troia, the end of the heroes.