It is intrinsically plausible that theOdyssey, which freely uses realistic details of many aspects of life on and beside the sea, was informed by real seafaring experience. This paper corroborates that hypothesis. The first part catalogues parallels between details of Odyssean and real-world seafaring. Odyssean type-scenes in particular echo real practice. The second part argues that three larger episodes have real-world parallels—the visit to the Lotos Eaters anticipates incidents of sailors deserting in friendly ports; the escape from Skylla and Charybdis demonstrates a safe course through a turbulent strait, and the encounter with Ino / Leukothea foreshadows the contemporary phenomenon of a sensed presence during a crisis. The pattern of coincidence between theOdysseyand the real world of seafaring constitutes a cumulative argument that suggests that those episodes in particular, and the poem as a whole, was informed by that world—a conclusion with consequences both for our understanding of the poem, and for our knowledge of the early Mediterranean maritime.

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《荷马奥德赛》中的航海实践和叙事

本质上是合理的奥德赛，它自由地使用海上和海上生活的许多方面的现实细节，是由真实的航海经验所启发的。本文证实了这一假设。第一部分列出了奥德赛细节与现实世界航海之间的相似之处。奥德赛式的场景尤其呼应了真实的实践。第二部分认为，三个较大的情节与现实世界有相似之处——访问 Lotos Eaters 预计会发生水手在友好港口逃跑的事件；逃离 Skylla 和 Charybdis 展示了一条通过湍流海峡的安全路线，与 Ino / Leukothea 的相遇预示了危机期间感知存在的当代现象。之间的巧合模式奥德赛真实的航海世界构成了一个累积的论点，表明这些情节，以及整首诗，是由那个世界所启发的——这个结论对我们对这首诗的理解，以及我们对早期的知识都有影响。地中海海上。