Mneme ( Memory ) : A Homeric Mystery

By Catherine Baird and K. Partridge

In 750 B.C.E., the poet Homeros (now called Homer) regains consciousness three days after a devastating head wound that has left him aphasic: an oral bard without the ability to speak or compose.Homeros awakens not only to a life-threatening skull fracture and the loss of his livelihood, but to the news that his wife was murdered on the same night. Two days later, his poetic rival is found dead as well-and Homeros is a suspect in both deaths. Now he must convalesce, regain the ability to speak, and find the killer responsible for the deaths and for his own crippling injuries. As he probes the crimes, memories dating back years suggest possible suspects.But brain damage has left Homeros unable to recall the month preceding the attack. So in addition to his other challenges, he must reconstruct what led up to the crimes; and as he does so, memories of his own failures as a husband and father, some dating back eleven years, hint at his own guilt. The family relationships of Homeros, his wife, and their daughters prove an integral part of the mystery.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578577364
• ISBN13: 9780578577364
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Argive Press