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100	1		_aNicolson, Adam, _eAuthor. _9130
245		0	_aWhy homer matters: a history : _b
260			_a : _b, _c.
264		1	_aNew York : _bHenry Holt and Company, _c2014.
300			_axiii, 301 pages. _billustrations, ma pagess ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	2		_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	0	0	_aHomer _xAppreciation1830 _988905
600	0	0	_aHomer _xCriticism and interpretation1826 _988906
600	0	0	_aHomer _xInfluence1828 _988907
600	0	0	_aHomer _xSettings1829 _988908
600	1	0	_aNicolson, Adam, _d1957- _xTravel _zEurope1827 _988909
650		0	_aEpic poetry, Greek _xHistory and criticism. _971831
650		0	_aLandscapes _zEurope. _971832
651		0	_aEurope _xDescription and travel1835 _988910
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999			_c16121 _d16121 _cHISTORY / Ancient / Greece _v2bisacsh _cLITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical _v2bisacsh
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