Premessa Ronald Blankenborg, The Territory without a Map: the Sea as a Narratological Frame and Compass in the “Odyssey” Yukiko Saito, Viewing the Sparkling Scenery of the Sea with…: Light and Darkness Reflected Reflected upon the Moving Water and its Transformed Role in Homer Xavier Lafontaine, Fin des temps, confins des mers et vers sibyllins Oriane Demerliac, Ellipse et surgissements des femmes dans la mer héroïque de l’ “Éneide”: de l’héroisme entre genre littéraire et genre sexué Margherita Lecco, “A grant navie outre la mer” (v. 2256): la battaglia navale di Wistasse il monaco Maria Shakhray, The Myth of Lepanto and Its Literary Representations in European Epic Poetry of the late Cinquecento Cinquecento-early Seicento Cristina Montagnani, Viaggiare a occhi chiusi: l’esperienza ulissiade di “Maia” Giuseppe Carrara, Un’epica del mare: fra Eliot e Pagliarani Elena Traina, Tupaia: Palingenesis of a Polynesian Epic Hero Francesco Toniolo, Il vento sulle onde: l’epica dell’esplorazione marittima in “The Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker”.