Travelling Heroes - Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer

Informationen zum Autor Robin Lane Fox Klappentext Robin Lane Fox is our most widely-read historian of the ancient Greek world. His other books include Alexander the Great , Pagans and Christians , The Unauthorized Version and The Classical World . He was historical advisor to Oliver Stone on the making of the film Alexander, and as the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times is author of the longest running column of any kind in a British newspaper. Zusammenfassung Explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Lane Fox, Robin Lane Fox
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9780140244991
• ISBN: 978-0-14-024499-1
• No. of pages: 513
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)