Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity
Carbone, Marco Benoît
Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination and media by their associated histories become sites of memory and identity, as their landscape and mythologies turn into insignia of a romanticised antiquity.
For the ancient Greeks, Homer had set the marine monsters of the O...
