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Why Homer Matters: A HistoryComplex, personal, and profound a brash and brave piece of writing filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad. The Wall Street Journal 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
Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad. -The Wall Street Journal
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.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/10/2015
ISBN: 9781250074942
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/14/2016 pg. 28
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Anna Stone has written a thrilling very hot and sexy love story. I was grabbed by the end of the first page and did not put it down until the last period! There are so many things to build the anxiety; childhood trauma, a total need to be dominated, job stress, and that went to both MC’s, and then there was a stalker added for good measure. As often as my heart swooned, and my imagination took over … honestly this story is good!
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I enjoyed the stoey and the writing of this author. My only criticism is I felt the work up slowly and them bam it was at the end with a quick way to happiness for all. I have enjoyed many stories from this author.
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★★★★★ 5
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