Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece

by François Hartog

Book Overview

This is a book about identity, about how the ancient Greeks saw themselves and others, and what this tells us in turn about Greek mentality and culture. It looks at voyagers and explorers, at travels in reality and in the mind, and shows what these reveal at key points in Greek history from the creation of Homer's monumental epic around 700 BC to the high Roman imperial period some eight hundred years later. The author takes us first to the journeyings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748614478
• ISBN13: 9780748614479
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"