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The Mighty Dead - Why Homer Matters (Hardcover)
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The Mighty Dead - Why Homer Matters (Hardcover)
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List price R530
Loot Price R494
Discovery Miles 4 940
You Save R36 (7%)
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Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic
poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of
destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why
they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so
distant? In this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson
sets out to explain why these great ancient poems still have so
much to say about what it is to be human, to love, lose, grow old
and die. 'The Mighty Dead' is a journey of history and discovery,
sewn together by the oldest stories we have - the Iliad and the
Odyssey, which emerged from a time before the Greeks became Greek.
As nomadic tribes of the northern steppe, they clashed with the
sophisticated cities of the eastern Mediterranean. These poems tell
us how we became who we are. We witness a disputatious dinner in
19th-century Paris and Keats finding in Chapman's Homer the
inspiration to travel in the 'realms of gold'. We go to Bosnia in
the 1930s, with the god of Homer studies Milman Parry where oral
poetry still thrived; to Spain to visit the possible site of Hades;
to Troy, Ukraine, Syria and the islands of the Mediterranean; and
to that most ancient of modern experiences, the open sea, in calm
and storm. Reflecting on fathers and sons, men and women, on the
necessity for love and the violence of warriors, on peace and war,
youth and old-age, Homer is the deep voice of Europe, as dark as
Mavrodaphne and as glowingly alive as anything that has ever been.
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