Travelling HeroesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 07/04/2009 - 464 páginas The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization. |
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Travelling Heroes | 29 |
PART TWO East and West | 41 |
Home and Away | 43 |
Travelling Settlers | 69 |
Up to Unqi | 84 |
Potamoi Karon | 97 |
A Travelling Prophet | 206 |
Travelling Lovers | 227 |
A Travelling Mountain | 242 |
The Great Castrator | 259 |
Travelling Monsters | 280 |
Basecamp to Battlefield | 302 |
Homeric Horizons | 317 |
The View from Ascra | 330 |
Beyond Ithaca | 114 |
Monkey Islands | 130 |
IO Back on Euboea | 152 |
PART THREE Travelling Myths | 163 |
Finding Neverland | 165 |
Lost in Translation | 186 |
Just So Stories | 350 |
The Dating of Homer | 360 |
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Adonis Aegean Al Mina already ancient Aphrodite Archaeological Argive Arima Assyrian Baal Bronze Age burials cave Chalcis Cilicia coast coastline Coldstream Cretan Crete Crielaard Cronos cult Cumae cups Cypriot Cyprus Daedalus early east Eastern Egypt eighth century BC epic Eretria Etruscan evidence excavated FGrH Giants goddess gods Greece Greek pottery Greek settlement Greek visitors Heaven Heracles Hesiod Hittite Homer honour horses Iliad important inscriptions Ischia island Italy Jebel Aqra king known Kumarbi land landscape later Greek Lefkandi Levant Levantine located modern Mopsus Mount Hazzi Mount Kasios mountain Muksas mythical myths nearby neo-Hittite ninth century non-Greek north Syria Odysseus origin Orontes perhaps Phoenician Pithecussae poem poet Posideion river Sardinia settled settlers ships Sicels Sicily sickle songs sources stories Strabo surviving Syria tells texts trail travelling heroes Typhon Tyre western Zancle Zeus Zeus Kasios