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Books : Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer
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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by: Robin Lane Fox List Price: £25.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £17.50 You Save: £7.50 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780713999808 ISBN: 0713999802 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: September 04, 2008 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 65616 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Comments by Michael Calum Jacques, author of '1st Century Radical'.Robin Lane Fox, as the reader may or may not know, is an accomplished historian and, quite remarkably, actually underpinning this book is an academic dissertation which is based upon the exposition of four different (8th century)texts. Students of Homer will find this work especially interesting as the author also addresses and largely rationalises the vexed and complex questions relating to the authorship of the Homeric corpus. Actually, Lane Fox asserts the singularity of the author and anchors his life-setting as having been on the island of Chios, in the Aegean. Interestingly the author also refuses to accept that the 'myths' of the Ancient Greeks were simply the literary or oral heirs of eastern mythology. This reviewer has a specialist's ... Read More: |
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