By Robin Lane Fox
ISBN-10: 0141889861
ISBN-13: 9780141889863
This awesome and daringly unique ebook proposes a brand new mind set in regards to the Greeks and their myths within the age of the good Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and heritage with the newest archeological discoveries and the author's personal trips to the most websites within the tale to explain how specific Greeks of the 8th century BC travelled east and west round the Mediterranean, and the way their notable trips formed their rules in their gods and heroes. It gathers jointly tales and echoes from many various historic cultures, not only the Greek - Assyria, Egypt, the Phoenician investors - and levels from Mesopotamia to the Rio Tinto at Huelva in smooth Portugal. Its principal element is the Jebel Aqra, the good mountain at the north Syrian coast which Robin Lane Fox dubs 'the southern Olympus', and round which a lot of the motion of the ebook turns.
Robin Lane Fox rejects the modern view of Homer and his near-contemporary Hesiod as poets who owed an immediate debt to texts and poems from the close to East, and through following the path of the Greek guests indicates that they have been, particularly, in debt to their very own countrymen. With attribute aptitude he finds how those travelers, progenitors of stories that have encouraged writers and historians for millions of years, understood the area sooner than the beginnings of philosophy and western inspiration.
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