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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Nicolson, Adam, 1957-     Subjects     Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.     Nicolson, Adam, 1957- -- Travel -- Europe.     Homer -- Influence.     Homer -- Settings.     Homer -- Appreciation.     Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.     Landscapes -- Europe.     Europe -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nicolson, Adam, 1957-       by title:      Why Homer matters / ...         MARC Display

Why Homer matters / Adam Nicolson. by Nicolson, Adam, 1957- New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014. Subjects Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.   Nicolson, Adam, 1957- -- Travel -- Europe.   Homer -- Influence.   Homer -- Settings.   Homer -- Appreciation.   Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.   Landscapes -- Europe.   Europe -- Description and travel. Electronic Resource http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/793/9781627791793/image/lgcover.9781627791793.jpg ISBN:  9781627791793 (hardcover) : 1627791795 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Meeting Homer -- Grasping Homer -- Loving Homer -- Seeking Homer -- Finding Homer -- Homer the strange -- Homer the real -- The metal hero -- Homer on the steppes -- The gang and the city -- Homer's mirror -- Homer's Odyssey -- The bright wake. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 883.01 Ni Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 883.01 Nicolson Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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