Why Homer matters

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The work Why Homer matters represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Why Homer matters

Statement of responsibility

Adam Nicolson

Creator

• Nicolson, Adam, 1957-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Epic poetry, Greek
• Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
• Europe
• Europe -- Description and travel
• HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
• Homer
• Homer -- Appreciation
• Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
• Homer -- Influence
• Art appreciation
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
• Landscapes
• Landscapes -- Europe
• Nicolson, Adam, 1957-
• Nicolson, Adam, 1957- -- Travel -- Europe
• Setting (Literature)
• Travel
• Homer -- Settings

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

883/.01

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PA4037

LC item number

.N523 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography