Poetics of reception of antiquity: Odysseus in cinematography
The paper analyses reception of the Odysseus’ image by the modern world cinematography. Based on that there is made a conclusion that its poetics is manifold: action may be taken both in antiquity and in modernity, referrals to Homer may be both explicit and implicit, may exist in the headline or in a textual epigraph, and an actualization of characteristic to the modernity political meanings may be implemented via allusions to motives and images of Homer’s poem. Parallels with Odyssey’s text in movies exist in both direct, indirect and travesty ways, which brings close reception of antiquity in the movies to the reception of that by the literature. And its artistic means are linked not only to the development of cinematographic genres, but are also fed by the versatility of the literature’ personage of antique sources.