Why homer matters: a history : (Record no. 16121)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781627791793
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PA4037.N523
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nicolson, Adam,
Relator term Author.
9 (RLIN) 130
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Why homer matters: a history :
Remainder of title
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. ,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. .
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Henry Holt and Company,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 301 pages.
Other physical details illustrations, ma pagess ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters--to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia and Extremadura, to the deserted, irradiated steppes of Chernobyl, where Homeric warriors still lie under the tumuli, unexcavated. This is a world of springs and drought, seas and cities, with not a tourist in sight. And all sewn together by the poems themselves and their great metaphors of life and suffering. Showing us the real roots of Homeric consciousness, the physical environment that fills the gaps between the words of the poems themselves, Nicholson's is itself a Homeric journey. A wandering meditation on lost worlds, our interconnectedness with our ancestors, and the surroundings we share. This is the original meeting of place and mind, our empathy with the past, our landscape as our drama. Following the acclaimed Gentry, which established him as one of the great landscape writers working today, Nicholson takes Homer's poems back to their source: beneath the distant, god-inhabited mountains, on the Trojan plains above the graves of the heroic dead, we find afresh the foundation level of human experience on Earth"--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Homer
General subdivision Appreciation1830
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600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Homer
General subdivision Criticism and interpretation1826
9 (RLIN) 88906
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Homer
General subdivision Influence1828
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600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Homer
General subdivision Settings1829
9 (RLIN) 88908
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nicolson, Adam,
Dates associated with a name 1957-
General subdivision Travel
Geographic subdivision Europe1827
9 (RLIN) 88909
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Epic poetry, Greek
General subdivision History and criticism.
9 (RLIN) 71831
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Landscapes
Geographic subdivision Europe.
9 (RLIN) 71832
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Europe
General subdivision Description and travel1835
9 (RLIN) 88910
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c BK
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