Why Homer Matters A History by Adam Nicolson
Brand: Picador USA
Product Description
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. Homers poemstransmitted orally across the generations shaped and reshaped in a living selfrenewing traditionoccupy 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. show more
Condition : New
Author : Adam Nicolson
Weight : 460
Publisher : Picador USA
Language : English
EAN : 9781250074942
ISBN10 : 1250074940
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20151012
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 137 X 206 X 25mm