Rileggendo Pierre Carlier: Odisseo tiranno?

The paper arises from a careful lecture of many works of Pierre Carlier, especially the Homer (Fayard, 1999), where the scholar states that the ideology of the Odyssey announces in some ways the tyrannical ideology. In a close dialogue with the author, I have passed in review the elements of the extraordinary basileia of Odysseus, especially the sphere of justice, and I went through the ending of the Odyssey, which I define a kind of prophecy about the future of Greek history for the presence of new concepts: amnesty, peace and wealth. The role of Odysseus at the end of the poem prefigures that of historical tyrants because it represents the case of a sovereignty reached by personal merit: an emblematic case that had been identified by the political thought of Aristotle.