Melancolia lui Ulise
Ulysses’s Melancholy

Summary/Abstract: How is it possible that the most important decisions of the Trojan War be taken in the throws of extreme rage? What is the relationship between the Homeric heroes and the chants that describe their life journey? Why does Ulysses refuse the immortality promised by Calypso? This article sets out to analyze the role of emotions in the workings of the rapport between reality and fiction, as manifested in several episodes of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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