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“Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt...and his excitement is contagious.”—James Wood, __The New Yorker__ Adam Nicolson sees the __Iliad__ and the __Odyssey__ as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time. __Why Homer Matters__ is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer’s poems 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.” The 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 B.C. when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashe

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Author

Nicolson, Adam

Publisher

Picador/Henry Holt and Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250074942

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Travel

Rating

3.89 / 5 (625 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13