Nostos
“homecoming”
idea · 2 works · 16 mentions · 37 anchored passages
nostos · homecoming · return · getting home · his return · his voyage · home · return home · safe homecoming · the return
in the texts
Odyssey
The concept of Odysseus's hoped-for return home, explicitly named in the Greek and central to Telemakhos's quest and prayers.
I am going to Sparta and to Pylos to see if I can hear anything about the nostos of my dear father.
"Hear me," he cried, "you god who visited me yesterday, and bade me sail the seas in search of the nostos of my father who has so long been missing.
If I can hear of him as alive and achieving his homecoming [ nostos] I will put up with the waste you suitors will make for yet another twelve months.
Iliad
The goal of returning safely to the ships after the raid.
While he was thus hesitating Athena came up to him and said, "Make your homecoming [ nostos], Diomedes, to the ships or you may be driven thither, should some other god rouse the Trojans.
But even so, Patroklos, fall upon them and save the fleet, lest the Trojans fire it and deprive us of our safe homecoming [ nostos].