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grbs-16967	Carawan, Edwin	The Amnesty at the End of the Odyssey	2024	16	.pdf	application/pdf	5973	242	64	Carawan ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2024) 131–146 ISSN 2159-3159 Article copyright held by the author(s) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Amnesty at the End of the Odyssey Edwin Carawan O QUELL the insurrection at Ithaca Zeus anticipates a resolution that is often read like a fairy-tale ending: Odysseus shall be king ever after, the two sides shall be friends as before in peace and prosperity, and, to that end, the gods shall erase all memory of the killing (Od. 24.483–486): “ὅρκια πιστὰ ταµόντες ὁ µὲν βασιλευέτω αἰεί, ἡµεῖς δ’ αὖ παίδων τε κασιγνήτων τε φόνοιο ἔκλησιν θέωμεν· τοὶ δ’ ἀλλήλους φιλεόντων ὡς τὸ πάρος, πλοῦτος δὲ καὶ εἰρήνη ἅλις ἔστω.” THE AMNESTY AT THE END OF THE ODYSSEY ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2024) 131–146 definitive Attic edition,33 the author(s) would naturally appeal to recent history of peace-making.34 That development would be in line with other adaptations leading to the Odyssey we have, translating customs of family obligation into rituals of the early city-state.35 It would also play into the developing themes of local tradition and regional festival.36 The journey that Teiresias foretold (Od. 11.119–137) and Odysseus seems committed to fulfill (23.251–284) played out in such sequels.37 An audience familiar with stories focusing on sons of the heroes would readily anticipate an outcome where Telemachus rules in his father’s absence.38	cache/grbs-16967.pdf	txt/grbs-16967.txt