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Travelling Heroes : Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
de Robin Lane Fox
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- ISBN 10
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- 9780140244991
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Penguin, UK, 2009. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Medium Trade Paperback. 514 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 2009. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. But where did they originate? Esteemed classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime's knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, to open up the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; History. ISBN/EAN: 9780140244991. Inventory No: 24030097.. 9780140244991
Sinopsis
This remarkable and daringly 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. Its central point is the Jebel Aqra, the great mountain on the north Syrian coast which Robin Lane Fox dubs 'the southern Olympus', and around which much of the action of the book turns.Robin Lane Fox rejects the fashionable view of Homer and his near-contemporary Hesiod as poets who owed a direct debt to texts and poems from the near East, and by following the trail of the Greek travellers shows that they were, rather, in debt to their own countrymen. With characteristic flair he reveals how these travellers, progenitors of tales which have inspired writers and historians for thousands of years, understood the world before the beginnings of philosophy and western thought.
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- Librería
- Manyhills Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24030097
- Título
- Travelling Heroes : Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
- Autor
- Robin Lane Fox
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0140244999
- ISBN 13
- 9780140244991
- Editorial
- Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Palabras clave
- BZDB5 Myths, Legends & Folklore; Travelling Heroes : Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; Myths, Legends & Folklore;
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