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Homer and the heroic age
Homer and the Heroic J. V. Homer and the Heroic Futura Publications FIRST First Edition Thus. Published by Futura Publications Limited, 1975. 12mo. Paperback. Book is very good. Spotting.Seller 521990 Pulp Paperbacks We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
200 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1975
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August 21, 2024
This book is a bit old, but I love the respect it has to Homer´s work. As he notes, there is always a hard historical core in most heroic song cycles.
Also the insight of how much of the Mycenaean world disappears after the Bronze Age collapse was new to me. How literacy, architecture, trade contacts take nearly half a Millenium to come back to the earlier level in Greece.
Also the insight of how much of the Mycenaean world disappears after the Bronze Age collapse was new to me. How literacy, architecture, trade contacts take nearly half a Millenium to come back to the earlier level in Greece.
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