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Robin Lane Fox's "Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths within the Epic Age of Homer" proposes a brand new mind set approximately historic Greeks, displaying how real-life trips formed their legendary stories. The stories of the traditional Greeks have encouraged us for hundreds of thousands of years. yet the place did they originate? Esteemed classicist Robin Lane Fox attracts on a lifetime's wisdom of the traditional global, and on his personal travels, to open up the age of Homer. His acclaimed background explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed round the Mediterranean, encountering unusual new points of interest - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, large prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that may turn into the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad. "A appealing evocation of a tantalizing world..."Travelling Heroes" is a "tour de force"". (Rowland Smith, "Literary Review"). "Lyrical, passionate ...his superb present is to make this long-ago global a shiny, amazing and infrequently scary position ...a magnificent story". (Elizabeth Speller, "Sunday Times"). "Original, bold and arguably life-enhancing ...produced with a sweeping narrative flourish worthwhile of a cinematographer or screenwriter". (Paul Cartledge, "Independent"). "Lane Fox argues his case with super sort and verve ...learned, and continually lively". (Mary Beard, "Financial Times"). Robin Lane Fox (b. 1946) is a Fellow of recent university, Oxford, and a college Reader in historic background. His different books contain "The Classical World", "Alexander the Great", "Pagans and Christians" and "The Unauthorized Version". He was once historic consultant to Oliver Stone at the making of Stone's movie "Alexander", for which he waived all his charges provided that he may possibly participate in the cavalry cost opposed to elephants which Stone staged within the Moroccan wasteland.
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