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| #68257 in Books | Picador USA | 2015-11-10 | 2015-11-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 207.77 x23.37 x5.48l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | Picador USA||51 of 56 people found the following review helpful.| A reall good book--- up to a point|By Foster J. Dickson|If I had stopped reading "Why Homer Matters" after the first seven chapters, I would have given it five stars. The writing is excellent, the description and exposition are vivid, the subject matter is compelling, the details are solid, the conclusions are interesting. But two things happened in chapter eight: first, I be|||“Highly accessible ... Nicolson's amateurism (in the best, etymological, sense of the word: from the Latin amare, "to love") and globe-trotting passion for his subject is contagious ... bringing the heroic age into our own.” ―The New Y
"Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad." -The Wall Street Journal Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the Iliad and the Odyssey and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems-transmitted orally across the gener...
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