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nostos|ˈnɒstɒs|
Also Nostos. Pl. nostoi.
[Gr. νόστος a return home.]
A homecoming, applied spec. to the homeward journeys of Odysseus and the other heroes of Troy. Also, the story of such a homecoming or return, esp. as the conclusion of a literary work.
In quots. 1883, 1901, and 19621 Nost(o)i is the title of a lost poem of the Epic Cycle dealing with the return of the Greek heroes from the Trojan War.
1883D. B. Munro in Jrnl. Hellenic Studies IV. 319 A passage of Pausanias (x. 28, 7), mentions, as the poems which contain descriptions of the infernal regions, the Odyssey, the Minyas, and the Nostoi. 1901― Homer's Odyssey Bks. XIII–XXIV 380 We may regard the Nosti as a tragic Odyssey. 1920J. Joyce Let. 12 July (1957) I. 143 A great part of the Nostos or close was written several years ago and the style is quite plain. 1924T. W. Allen Homer: Origins & Transmission 333, I have found a reference to their Nostos in Plutarch. 1957N. Frye Anat. of Criticism iii. 159 It is rare, in literature as in life, to find even a domesticated animal peacefully living through its full span of life... The exceptions, such as Odysseus' dog, are appropriate to the theme of nostos or full close of a cyclical movement. 1962C. M. Bowra in Wace & Stubbings Compan. to Homer iii. 40 The tradition that he composed the Iliad and the Odyssey becomes less impressive when he is credited by different authorities with the Thebais, Epigonoi, Cypria, and Nostoi. 1962Thomas & Stubbings in Ibid. ix. 292 Agamemnon, on his nostos, was carried away as he approached Malea. 1968C. R. Beye Iliad, Odyssey & Epic Tradition v. 161 The story of homecoming had a name: nostos. The several nostoi are a leitmotiv throughout the Odyssey which is over-all a nostos, being the return of Odysseus. There is a hint in the Odyssey that epics of nostoi were currently fashionable. |
