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Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their
Robin Lane Fox
Allen Lane
History
Foxâ s new book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and west around the Mediterranean, and how their extraordinary journeys shaped their ideas of their gods and heroes. Rejecting the view of Homer and Hesiod as poets who owed a direct debt to texts and poems from the near East, he shows that they were, rather, in debt to their own countrymen. Fox reveals how these travellers, whose tales have inspired writers and historians for thousands of years, understood the world before the beginnings of philosophy and western thought.
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