Classical Greek
ἀναγνώρισις
Anagnorisis
anagnorisis
Recognition: the turn from ignorance to knowledge. Aristotle’s term, not Homer’s.
Etymology
ἀναγνώρισις: recognition, making known again. From ana- (again) + a formation from γιγνώσκω (to know). Aristotle uses it in the Poetics for the turn from ignorance to knowledge, often paired with peripeteia (reversal).
Historical usage
Not a Homeric technical term. It is a later analytic word that happens to fit the Odyssey’s recognitions unusually well: dog, scar, bed, if we admit different recognizers, different proofs. Homer was not working from Aristotle.
Later development
Narratology and drama studies extended the term. It is not a Jungian meeting of the Self.
Why it matters here
Source the word historically, then watch how Ithaca stages knowledge: smell, touch, shared carpentry. Recognition is a craft.
Stories that hold this word
Relationship type is not optional
A word present in a source text is not the same as a later critical term applied to that story.
Later critical term
The OdysseyAristotle’s term applied later to dog, scar, and bed. Homer did not use it.
Related
Later critical term
The Odyssey