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Publication

2002 - New York Review Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

51,250 words, Guess

Page Count

205 pages

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and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC883/.01
  • LCCPA4037 .F48 2002
  • LCCPA4037.F48 2002

Description

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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