The eighth century B.C. was the formative age of the great epics of
Homer, a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. In this
groundbreaking book, Robin Lane Fox takes us into that time before
history to explore questions ranging from the origins of the Greek
gods to the spread of classical culture in the Mediterranean world.
It is a remarkable tour de force of scholarship and creative
reasoning, written with flair and the authority gained from a
lifetime of study and personal experience of key sites.
Presented as a kind of historical detective story, "Travelling
Heroes" draws upon archaeology, ancient texts, and new discoveries
to develop a fresh and provocative thesis: that migrants from in
the Greek island of Euboea settled in specific places both in the
Near East and in Italy and that what they found there helped shape
their most distinctive myths. In fascinating detail, Lane Fox
describes the journeys of the travellers and the contacts they made
with Phoenicians, Assyrians, and the people of north Cyprus and
Syria, and he shows the way they drew themes--and even references
to particular topographic features--into what would become the
classic stories of gods and legend. He also offers new insights
into Homer himself.
Robin Lane Fox is probably the most widely read historian of the
ancient Greek world, and "Travelling Heroes" displays the same
lively originality that marked his writing about the Bible in "The
Unauthorized Version" and about the triumph of Christianity in
"Pagans and Christians. "Learned but never dry," "controversial but
soundly based, it brings a distant and nearly forgotten time
brilliantly to life again.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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