{"product_id":"why-homer-matters-a-history-paperback","title":"Why Homer Matters: A History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Nicolson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Homer Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems-transmitted orally across the generations, shaped and reshaped in a living, self-renewing tradition-occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes \"a third space\" in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims \"to bind the wounds that time inflicts.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 BC when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Nicolson's\u003c\/b\u003e books include the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGod's Secretaries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSea Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSissinghurst\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSeamanship\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his honors are the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Prize, and the British Topography Prize; he lives on a farm in Sussex with his wife and their five grown children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761030856992,"sku":"9781250074942","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c6fb42569626d8bad816bd396fcee22c.webp?v=1780197687","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/why-homer-matters-a-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}