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Why Homer Matters: A History
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- 9781250074942
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250074940
ISBN-13
9781250074942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208721216
Product Key Features
Book Title
Why Homer Matters : a History
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ancient / Greece, General, Poetry, Ancient & Classical, Europe / General
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Nature, Travel, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Trade
Reviews
Adam Nicolson's books are like beautiful shells encountered in the sand: delicate, rare and wonderful. [ Why Homer Matters ] is a moving personal musing on Homer--on what he has to say to us today about life and about ourselves., In this passionate, deeply personal book, Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns, and surprises., Highly accessible ... Nicolson's amateurism (in the best, etymological, sense of the word: from the Latin amare , "to love") and globe-trotting passion for his subject is contagious ... bringing the heroic age into our own., Seldom have I been so moved, inspired, informed and delighted as by Adam Nicolson's elegant explanation of why Homer--so long forgotten in the school-time haze--is so vitally important as a lifetime vade mecum . The author must be one of the last true polymaths standing: his writings--this new book above all--give pleasure beyond compare., Stirring ... Nicolson eloquently sums up what we still look for in Homer: 'wisdom, his fearless encounter with the dreadful, his love of love and hatred of death, the sheer scale of his embrace, his energy and brightness, his resistance to nostalgia.', /I>"Adam Nicolson's books are like beautiful shells encountered in the sand: delicate, rare and wonderful. [ Why Homer Matters ] is a moving personal musing on Homer--on what he has to say to us today about life and about ourselves., Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad ., [A] gracefully written and deeply informed book...Nicolson's spirited exploration illuminates our own indelible past., "Highly accessible ... Nicolson's amateurism (in the best, etymological, sense of the word: from the Latin amare , "to love") and globe-trotting passion for his subject is contagious ... bringing the heroic age into our own." -- The New York Times Book Review "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 "Stirring ... Nicolson eloquently sums up what we still look for in Homer: 'wisdom, his fearless encounter with the dreadful, his love of love and hatred of death, the sheer scale of his embrace, his energy and brightness, his resistance to nostalgia.'" -- The Washington Post "Adam Nicolson's books are like beautiful shells encountered in the sand: delicate, rare and wonderful. [ Why Homer Matters ] is a moving personal musing on Homer--on what he has to say to us today about life and about ourselves." -- Alexander McCall Smith, Daily Mail "Erudite, far-ranging in time and space, and provocative ... This rich and adventurous book is Nicolson's own odyssey, a wide-eyed ramble around the ancient world and through the centuries ... Nicolson's enthusiasm [is] enriching and his examination of the character of the two epics acute and fascinating." -- Allan Massie, Literary Review "Seldom have I been so moved, inspired, informed and delighted as by Adam Nicolson's elegant explanation of why Homer--so long forgotten in the school-time haze--is so vitally important as a lifetime vade mecum . The author must be one of the last true polymaths standing: his writings--this new book above all--give pleasure beyond compare." -- Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and The Men Who United the States "There is no better explicator of life, of art, and the process by which we experience both than Adam Nicolson. In Why Homer Matters , he is at his eloquent and rapturous best. Through the prism of this great poet, Nicolson has crafted a kind of metaphysical guidebook on how to lead a meaningful life in in a world of terrifying and wondrous change." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Bunker Hill "In this passionate, deeply personal book, Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns, and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] gracefully written and deeply informed book...Nicolson's spirited exploration illuminates our own indelible past." -- Kirkus, starred review, There is no better explicator of life, of art, and the process by which we experience both than Adam Nicolson. In Why Homer Matters , he is at his eloquent and rapturous best. Through the prism of this great poet, Nicolson has crafted a kind of metaphysical guidebook on how to lead a meaningful life in in a world of terrifying and wondrous change., Erudite, far-ranging in time and space, and provocative ... This rich and adventurous book is Nicolson's own odyssey, a wide-eyed ramble around the ancient world and through the centuries ... Nicolson's enthusiasm [is] enriching and his examination of the character of the two epics acute and fascinating.
Table Of Content
Illustrations xi Map xiii Foreword 1 1 Meeting Homer 7 2 Grasping Homer 13 3 Loving Homer 32 4 Seeking Homer 40 5 Finding Homer 59 6 Homer the Strange 72 7 Homer the Real 100 8 The Metal Hero 116 9 Homer on the Steppes 144 10 The Gang and the City 178 11 Homer's Mirror 205 12 Homer's Odyssey 224 Conclusion: The Bright Wake 244 Notes 247 Bibliography 273 Acknowledgments 283 Index 285
Synopsis
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., "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.
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