Why Homer Matters: A History
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Why Homer Matters: A History

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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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