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Vengeance in the Odyssey: tisis as Narrative

This chapter establishes the importance of revenge in the Odyssey and shows how a narratological analysis of revenge-taking best accounts for the combination of the ideological points from chapter 1 with the literary form of the Odyssey. The manner in which the Odyssey opens—with the mythic paradeigma of Aigisthos—brings tisis to the forefront, as does the final divine council scene. This chapter next shows how the basic ideological framework of tisis analyzed in chapter 1 takes on a narrative structure. Thus, tisis in the Odyssey is defined as a type of narrative. In addition, with a brief survey of the debate about intertextuality and allusion in Homer, this chapter examines how different instances of tisis refer to one another via intratextuality and can evoke irony. Lastly, some distinctive, prominent features of tisis in the Odyssey are considered, such as ἀτασθαλίαι‎, “recklessness.”