A Travel Guide to Homer : On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9781780761978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 272 str.

John Freely

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In October 1945, at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been mesmerized with Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. Throughout his life spent exploring both these lands and the stories by and connected to Homer, Freely has forged a captivating traveler's guide to Homer's lost world and to his epics-- The Iliad and The Odyssey--investigating where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters are and what it was about the landscapes of Greece and Turkey that influenced and inspired Homer-- arguably the greatest classical epic poet.This will be a traveler's guide to all of those places linked to Homer that can be identified and it will also speculate on where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters might be. With a revealing introduction to Homer and his times and an outline of the wanderings of Odysseus, the book follows in his footsteps from Troy to his final return to Ithaca. Finally, Freely illuminates how the Homeric epics took their final form and their subsequent echoes in literature, art, legend and folklore: all part of the romance of the wandering hero.

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List of Illustrations Note from the Author 1. The Homeric World 2. The Catalogues of Ships and Trojans 3. The Anger of Achilles 4. Mixed Multitudes and the Great Migration 5. Troy After the Fall 6. The Rediscovery of Ancient Greece 7. Troy and the Troad 8. The Heroes Return 9. Leaving Calypso's Isle 10. Across the Wine-dark Aegean 11. A World of Wonders 12. The Witch's Palace 13. Dialogue with Death 14. Siren Land 15. Return to Ithaca 16. Revenge and Reunion 17. The Odyssey Continues Source Notes Bibliography Index