Travelling heroes : Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer / Robin Lane Fox
2008, First Edition. London : Penguin. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #446724
ISBN: 9780713999808
Physical description; xiv, 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; List of maps -- Preface -- Part One -- 1. Hera's flight -- 2. From China to Cadiz -- 3. Travelling Heroes -- Part Two -- East and West -- 4. Home and away -- 5. Travelling settlers -- 6. Up to Unqi -- 7. Potamoi Karon -- 8. Beyond Ithaca -- 9. Monker Island -- 10. Back on Eurobea -- Part Three -- Travelling Myths -- 11. Finding Neverland -- 12. Lost in transition -- 13. A travelling prophet -- 14. Travelling lovers -- 15. A travelling mountain -- 16. The great castrator -- 17. Travelling monsters -- 18. Base-camp to battlefield -- Part Four -- Just so stories -- 19. Homeric horizons -- 20. The view from Ascra -- 21. Just so stories -- The dating of Homer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index. Subjects; Homer Settings. Hesiod Settings. Hesiod. Homer. Homer Knowledge Folklore. Hesiod Knowledge Folklore. To 146 B.C. Mythology, Greek. Greeks Travel. Civilization. Intellectual life.
Price: €14.95