The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics Series)
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social...
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The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781590170175 (1590170172)
ASIN: 1590170172
Publish date: 2002-08-10
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Greece,
Ancient,
Mythology
Quite frankly, I don't know why anyone would see Homer as a good study of what was, but Finley's quasi rebuttal is packed full of data and insight.
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