The shape of early greek utopia

Classical Quarterly 71 (2):467-481 (2021)
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The paper offers a new approach to utopia in early and classical Greek texts from Homer to the fifth century. The model is based on four motifs regularly occurring in ‘utopian texts’, that is, descriptions of places that are distant in time and/or space. A comparative analysis of such texts and of how they manipulate the four motifs sheds new light on specific problems and encourages more nuanced readings of famous texts, such as Homer's account of Scheria.

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L'utopia platonica.Cosimo Quarta - 1996 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 186 (1):164-165.

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