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Cultural Hegemonies In The Odyssey

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Corfiots playing cricket or drinking an occasional ginger beer on the famous Liston – a true, small-scale copy of the rue de Rivoli in Paris – where traditionally evenings kick off with cocktails, are just a few examples of any lasting cultural hegemonies of the past. But if Corfu remains an enchanting mixture of simplicity and sophistication, this has to be searched inside the Western Canon; suspending disbelief – an impossible task for any topographer to delve into natural objects connected to the Odyssey in the city of Alkinoos – and accepting that Corcyra is identified, as it claims, with the Homeric Scheria, the land of the hospitable Phaecians, along with the arbitrary, but entertaining thought that Odysseus was the first tourist treated,
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