This text chronologically follows a lost epic called the Nostoi, or "returns."
This text's "ethnographic imagination" is the subject of a book by Carol Dougherty that argues that the description of the creation of an object in this text is a metaphor for the creation of the text itself. This text's repetitive use of comparative language that inverts traditional social and sexual roles is dubbed "reverse simile" in an essay by Helene Foley. Peter von der Mühll (MUUL) theorized that a redactor 'B' combined works by authors 'A' and 'T' to produce this text, which Henry Fielding called "the eating-est epic." Samuel Butler argued that a woman from Sicily authored this text and inserted herself into the story as a princess who encounters a shipwrecked man while washing clothes on the island of Scheria. This text chronologically follows a lost epic called the Nostoi, or "returns." For 10 points, name this ancient Greek poem whose female characters include Nausicaa (naw-SIK-ay-ah) and Penelope.
This text's "ethnographic imagination" is the subject of a book by Carol Dougherty that argues that the description of the creation of an object in this text is a metaphor for the creation of the text itself.
The Odyssey [or Odysseia] [Editor's note: The object referred to in the  rst sentence is the ra t Odysseus builds on Calypso's island.]