Odysseus Unbound : The Search for Homer's Ithaca

Robert Bittlestone with James Diggle and John Underhill

ISBN 10: 0521853575 / ISBN 13: 9780521853576

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

Cambridge University Press, 2005. Hard cover. Book condition : Very good. very clean unmarked text. Superb photographs, maps etc. Signed by the authors. Very heavy book, please contact the bookseller for postal rates. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BY014811. N° de réf. du vendeur 014811

Synopsis :

Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia, particularly because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of the true location of Homer's Ithaca by following a detective trail of literary, geological and archaeological clues. We can now identify all the places on the island that are mentioned in the epic - even the site of Odysseus' Palace itself. The pages of the Odyssey come alive as we follow its events through a landscape that opens up before our eyes via glorious colour photographs and 3D satellite images. Over a century after Schliemann's discovery of Troy, this breakthrough will revolutionise our understanding of Homer's texts and of our cultural ancestors in Bronze Age Greece.

À propos des auteurs: Robert Bittlestone studied economics at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder of Metapraxis Ltd, a company specialising in the detection of early warnings for multinational companies. He is the author of numerous business articles and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce.

James Diggle is Professor of Greek and Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. His publications include The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (Oxford University Press, 1991), and Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford University Press, 1994), Theophrastus: Characters (0521853575). He was University Orator at Cambridge for eleven years, and has published a selection of his speeches in Cambridge Orations 1982-1993 (0521466180).

John Underhill is Chair of Stratigraphy at the University of Edinburgh and Associate Professor at the Department for Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Odysseus Unbound : The Search for Homer's ...
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date d'édition : 2005
Reliure : Cloth
Illustrateur : N/A
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good
Signé : Signed by Authors
Edition : 2005 First Edition