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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780679763864
of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods
develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist
Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient
world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing
it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the
intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the
Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains,
vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into the
myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the
cornerstone of Western civilization.
“Multilayered and beautifully written. . . . [Lane Fox’s] great
gift is to make this long-ago world a vivid, extraordinary and
sometimes frightening place. Like Homer’s yearning traveller, Lane
Fox longs to be there, and his longing is contagious.”
—Elizabeth Speller, The Sunday Times (London)
“Full of wit and suspense. . . . Lane Fox argues his case with
tremendous style and verve.”
—Mary Beard, Financial Times
“A fascinating quest . . . that illuminates the roots of Greek
thought and ideas that have shaped our own world and philosophies.
. . . Lane Fox is a lively writer.”
—Lois D. Atwood, The Providence Journal
“Exciting. . . . With his usual panache, [Lane Fox] displays
encyclopaedic erudition alongside an unusually wide historical and
geographical scope. The pleasure and the education offered by this
book lie in the stylishly presented detail.”
—Edith Hall, The Times Literary Supplement (London)
“As we follow [Lane Fox] through the pages of this learned,
original and ceaselessly intriguing book, we find a strange and
alien landscape opening up before us, one so remote that it had
hitherto seemed lost to utter darkness. . . . This is a wonderful
book.”
—Tom Holland, The Spectator (London)
“Original, daring, and arguably life-enhancing. . . . Lane Fox
[writes] with a sweeping narrative flourish worthy of a
cinematographer or screenwriter . . . seasoned and leavened with a
wit that only writing can afford.”
—Paul Cartledge, The Independent (London)
“Lane Fox has spent his long and distinguished career negotiating a
broader intellectual highway, and leading a wide range of readers
along it. Travelling Heroes takes us on a dazzling journey
throughout the Mediterranean world of the 8th century BC [and] he
evokes the period brilliantly.”
—The Telegraph (London)
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