The World of Odysseus

The World of Odysseus
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-10 : 9781590170175
ISBN-13 : 1590170172
Rating : 4/5 (172 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The World of Odysseus by : M. I. Finley

Download or read book The World of Odysseus written by M. I. Finley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history of the ancient world, M.I. Finley's brilliant study remains, as classicist Bernard Knox notes in his introduction to this new edition, "as indispensable to the professional as it is accessible to the general reader"--a fundamental companion for students of Homer and Homeric Greece.


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