The cult of the insurgent Greek nation in Kalvos’ “Odes”
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The cult of the insurgent Greek nation in Kalvos’ “Odes”
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03 December 2021
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The insurgent Greek nation features under different guises in Kalvos’ “Odes” (1824, 1826): as Liberty (“The Ocean”, “To Psara”) and Victory (“To Victory”) but also as Glory (“To Glory”) and Virtue (“To Glory”). In all of these odes, Kalvos employs the rhetorical trope of allegory, which is combined in some cases with the trope of divine epiphany, to represent the insurgent Greek nation in the form of allegorical female figures who resemble ancient Greek goddesses and occasionally manifest themselves to the Greek insurgents, especially in contexts of crisis. While critical discussion of these odes has read Kalvos’ use of allegory and divine epiphany as instances of a neoclassical poetics, this paper argues that the employment of these two tropes also points in the direction of the cult of the insurgent Greek nation in line with the discourse of nation cult informing the “Odes”.
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