Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of HomerPenguin UK, 4 set 2008 - 528 pagine 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. |
Sommario
PART ONE Heras Flight 1 Heras Flight | |
From China to Cadiz | |
Travelling Heroes | |
PART TWO East and West | |
Home and Away | |
Travelling Settlers | |
Lost in Translation | |
A Travelling Prophet | |
Travelling Lovers | |
A Travelling Mountain | |
The Great Castrator | |
Travelling Monsters | |
Basecamp to Battlefield | |
PART FOUR | |
Up to Unqi | |
Potamoi Karon | |
Beyond Ithaca | |
Monkey Islands | |
Back on Euboea | |
PART THREE Travelling Myths | |
Finding Neverland | |
The View from Ascra | |
Just So Stories | |
Illustrations | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
List of Illustrations | |
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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer Robin Lane Fox Visualizzazione estratti - 2008 |
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer Robin Lane Fox Anteprima non disponibile - 2009 |