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Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer

By Robin Lane Fox

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2010
ISBN
0679763864, 9780679763864
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
11 MB (11094991 bytes)
Series
Vintage
Edition
1
Pages
496\0
Time added
2013-12-31 14:45:31

Description

The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through 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.

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