Algunas Consideraciones Acerca De La Presencia De Homero En La Obra De Unamuno

Abstract

Miguel de Unamuno was a constant reader of epic poetry, in which Homer always occupied a special place, not only for professional reasons. Throughout his work, both in prose and verse, it is possible to trace different and sometimes contradictory references to the Iliad and the Odyssey, about which he made profound reflections, and which he tried to adjust to his own view of life and death. From this perspective he approached images as the 'asphodel meadow' or, based in the Homeric simile, the 'succession of generations of leaves and men', or mythical figures like the Sirens, Helen, Tantalus, Sisyphus and Ulysses.