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Travelling Heroes: In the Epic age of Homer
Robin Lane Fox
Synopsis "Travelling Heroes: In the Epic age of Homer"
The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization.
(Eton, 1946) es miembro del New College de Oxford, universidad en la que obtuvo el doctorado en Historia Antigua. Ha sido también corresponsal del Financial Times durante más de treinta años. Desde su publicación en 1973, Alejandro Magno (que ha recibido los Premios Duff Cooper Memorial, James Tait Black Memorial y W.H. Heinemann) se ha convertido en un auténtico libro de referencia. Como parte de la investigación que condujo a la escritura de Alejandro Magno, viajó durante años entre Grecia y la India, buscando huellas del conquistador de Asia.