Why Homer Matters - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9781250074942ISBN-10:1250074940UPC:9781250074942Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Poetry, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCXM66399Y
"Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad." -The Wall Street Journal
Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the Iliad and the Odyssey and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems-transmitted orally across the generations, shaped and reshaped in a living, self-renewing tradition-occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes "a third space" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims "to bind the wounds that time inflicts." The Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 BC when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. The poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.Languages:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9781250074942ISBN-10:1250074940UPC:9781250074942Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Poetry, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCXM66399Y
Adam Nicolson's books include the New York Times bestseller God's Secretaries, Sea Room, Sissinghurst, and Seamanship. Among his honors are the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Prize, and the British Topography Prize; he lives on a farm in Sussex with his wife and their five grown children.
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