Why Homer matters

by Nicolson, Adam

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Title Statements

Full title :Why Homer matters / Adam Nicolson.

Summary

"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."--Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014
Edition:First Picador edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Picador/Henry Holt and Company
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

Notes

"A John Macrae book."

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781250074942, 1250074940, 9781627791793, 1627791795
oclc:ocn897776066
LC Classification:PA4037
Dewey Decimal:883.01

Meeting Homer -- Grasping Homer -- Loving Homer -- Seeking Homer -- Finding Homer -- Homer the strange -- Homer the real -- The metal hero -- Homer on the steppes -- The gang and the city -- Homer's mirror -- Homer's Odyssey -- Conclusion: The bright wake.

Subjects

Art appreciation Criticism, interpretation, etc Epic poetry, Greek Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criti… Europe Europe -- Description and travel Europe -- Descriptions et voyages Grekisk hjältediktning -- historia HISTORY / Ancient / Greece Homer Homeros Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Landscapes Landscapes -- Europe LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classic… Nicolson, Adam Paysages -- Europe Poésie épique grecque -- Histoire et cr… Setting (Literature) travel