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13 de ene. de 2008 · But here Homer shows us the first way that combat soldiers lose their homecoming, having left the war zone physically—they may simply remain in combat mode, although not necessarily against...
12 de oct. de 2022 · The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture -- danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by the dead, obsession, vagrancy, and homelessness.
25 de nov. de 2003 · Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Paperback – November 25, 2003. In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
11 de may. de 2010 · The Odyssey, Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture: danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by...
Shay raises the issue of how a soldier adapts to the requirements of war, which, by their nature, contradict those of a civil environment. Odysseus, Shay relates, demonstrates success in the practice of those traits so essential to success in battle--"cunning intelligence, deception, reconnaissance, manipulation, secrecy, spying...."
The "Odyssey," Shay argues, offers explicit portrayals of behavior common among returning soldiers in our own culture -- danger-seeking, womanizing, explosive violence, drug abuse, visitation by...
In Odysseus in America, Shay uses the Odyssey to explore the issues of the reintegration of combat soldiers into civilian life. Shay is not, nor does he pretend to be, an expert on Homer. He is a staff psychiatrist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Boston, and the book is not an academic, or even a popular, study of ...
