Name: Travelling Heroes: In the Epic age of Homer (in English)
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Author: Robin Lane Fox
ISBN: 9780679763864

portada Travelling Heroes: In the Epic age of Homer (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Lane Fox

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

465

Format

Paperback

Weight

1.00

ISBN

9780679763864

ISBN13

9780679763864

Edition No.

Synopsis "Travelling Heroes: In the Epic age of Homer (in English)"

The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history 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.

Robin Lane Fox

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(Eton, 1946) es miembro del New College de Oxford, universidad en la que obtuvo el doctorado en Historia Antigua. Ha sido también corresponsal del Financial Times durante más de treinta años. Desde su publicación en 1973, Alejandro Magno (que ha recibido los Premios Duff Cooper Memorial, James Tait Black Memorial y W.H. Heinemann) se ha convertido en un auténtico libro de referencia. Como parte de la investigación que condujo a la escritura de Alejandro Magno, viajó durante años entre Grecia y la India, buscando huellas del conquistador de Asia.

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