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London : Penguin, 2008. 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. paperback, illustrated, 514 pages, light creasing to spine otherwise a near fine clean copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B38.
Travelling Heroes Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Fox, Robin Lane - 2009
by Fox, Robin Lane
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Travelling Heroes Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
by Fox, Robin Lane
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UK: Penguin, 2009. 504 densely packed pp plus index, remainder mark at bottom. This remarkable and original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and west around the Mediterranean, and how their extraordinary journeys shaped their ideas of their gods and heroes. It gathers together stories and echoes from many different ancient cultures, not just the Greek - Assyria, Egypt, the Phoenician traders - and ranges from Mesopotamia to the Rio Tinto at Huelva in modern Portugal. Book in great order.. Papeback. Very Good/None Issued. 19.5cm.
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- Date Published 2009
- Keywords Mythology Gods Heroes Greek Greece
- Size 19.5cm
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TRAVELLING HEROES Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
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Allen Lane. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0713999802 . One bumped corner else Fine. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 528 pages; Oxford classicist [Robin Lane] Fox explores the 700s BCE, the century to which he imputes the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Explaining that this was an era of cultural contact between Greeks—specifically, those from the island Euboea—and residents of the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean Sea, he delves deeply into the nature of that exchange. Aiming to evoke the Euboeans' mind-set, he springs from the archaeological traces of their settlements to the gods and heroes of the Near East they adapted into their own myths. While there is considerable textual explication of Homer and Hesiod involved in Fox's procedure, he pulls the mythical characters from the pages and places them in the physical landscapes with which the Euboeans not only associated them but believed they actively inhabited. So doing lends the…
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Travelling Heroes, Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
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Penguin, London, 2009. Soft cover. Condition: Good. Moderate reading wear. Very clean interior. .
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