Monday, September 23, 2019

Wikipedia Trail: From Nostos to Nostoi

For my introduction yesterday, I looked at the etymology for the word nostos which is the "return home" theme of The Odyssey. I pressed around on more of the Wikipedia links and it led me to the Hero's journey, which is a cycle of events that every hero goes through that has a decisive crisis or climax in a story and end with victory. The decisive climax was kind of a dead-end so I went back to my nostos link and found nostoi which also deals with the return. It seems both those words have a similar meaning?

links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_(narrative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostoi

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A hero's journey

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