Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Nicolson, Adam, 1957-

Title Why Homer matters / Adam Nicolson.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  883.01 NICOLSON    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  883.01 NICHOLSON    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Workroom  883.01 NICHOLSON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  883 NICOLSON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  883.01 N53    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  883 NICOLSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  Z883.01 HOMER N    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  883.01 NI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note "A John Macrae book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-282) and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
Nicolson, Adam, 1957- -- Travel -- Europe.
Landscapes -- Europe.
Europe -- Description and travel.
Homer -- Influence.
Homer -- Settings.
Homer -- Appreciation.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Art appreciation.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Setting (Literature)
ISBN 9781627791793 (hardcover) $30.00
1627791795 (hardcover)
-->
Add a Review