Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey opens with an uncomfortable scene on the corporeal reality of the most famous military ruse in the History of war: the Trojan Horse. The story goes that the Achaeans hid in a hollow wooden horse for a surprise attack on the Trojans, thus winning the war. The real experience of being trapped…
Author: Eleni Anna Bozini
Eleanna is a PhD researcher in Comparative Literature in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her thesis focuses on the intersection between physical wounds and emotional trauma in literary writing, as well as the reception of literary depictions of injuries from the Homeric epics and Classical tragedy into Modernist and Postmodernist poetry. She is very interested in Interdisciplinary Research and the field of Medical Humanities in particular, and is part of the Injury Studies Network. Eleanna was a CIVIS Junior Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in the University of Tubingen, and a Visiting Researcher at the English Department in the University of Glasgow as well as the Classics Department in the University of Edinburgh. She holds an MSc in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Greek Language and Literature from the University of Athens.
Are you angry or “slammed” by anger?
Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red (1998) is inspired by Stesichoros’s epic poem Geryoneis, which describes the killing of the monster Geryon by the mythical hero Herakles. Carson’s take on the story reframes the violence between Herakles and Geryon through metaphors. The bodily injury in the ancient narrative is reworked into emotional harm and mental trauma…