{"product_id":"why-homer-matters-9781250074942","title":"Why Homer Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComplex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. -\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Homer Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer's poems-transmitted orally across the generations, shaped and reshaped in a living, self-renewing tradition-occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes a third space in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims to bind the wounds that time inflicts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 BC when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Nicolson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250074942","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440410857609,"sku":"9781250074942","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_85b5f0fb-6d55-4eae-afe8-d4ae1e6eab8c.jpg?v=1716238437","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/why-homer-matters-9781250074942","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}