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Imagine a place isolated from normal society, whose inhabitants take in an exhausted, destitute veteran, give him clothes, feed and bathe him, devote their full attention to his presence, provide gifts, entertainment, and athletic recreation, watch him break down in tears when he is reminded of his past, listen intently to his personal story, even asking for more details, and send him off with a store of wealth to use when he arrives back home. What might we call such a place? A sanitarium? A rehab facility?
I wish to thank Andrew Miller, Henry Spelman, and David Konstan for their many improvements of content and style. Portions of this chapter were delivered at the University of South Carolina, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the 2012 CAMWS meeting in Baton Rouge. All translations are my own.
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Race, W.H. (2014). Phaeacian Therapy in Homer’s Odyssey. In: Meineck, P., Konstan, D. (eds) Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks. The New Antiquity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398864_3
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