Harry Mount

Harry Mount's Odyssey (eBook, ePUB)

Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus is a journey round Greece inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey and tracing ancient Greek civilization at its height.

Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization.

In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector's body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander.

Whether in Odysseus's kingdom on Ithaca, Homer's birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur's lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey - and ancient Greece - back to life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472904683
• Artikelnr.: 43110585

Autorenporträt

Harry Mount studied ancient and modern history and classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a First. He has written a number of books including the top ten bestseller Amo, Amas, Amat and All That (Short Books), A Lust for Windowsills (Little Brown) and How England Made the English (Viking). He is a former New York correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and has written for the Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail. He is now editor of The Oldie Magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: from Heathrow to Troy1 Bye-bye, Penelope2 From Europe to Asia - by Breast Stroke3 Greece 1 Rome 04 Shakespeare's Classical Education5 My Great-Grandfather's Cenotaph at Gallipoli6 In Search of Priam's Troy7 In the Wake of Odysseus 8 Sex Life in Ancient Greece9 Homer - The Early Years10 How Homer Conquered the World11 It was all Greek to Jesus12 Mykonos - the Party's Only13 Into the Marble Mountain14 The Athenian Miracle15 A Marathon Effort16 The Decline and Fall of Plato's Athens17 Greek Tiger Mothers - the Sparton Guide to Bringing Up Baby18 Scylla and Circe Get An Italian Makeover19 The Sicilian Cyclops20 Going Home to Ithaca21 Calypso's LamentBibliographyAcknowledgements

Rezensionen

The book is packed with such goodies ... As he picks his way among the ruins, brooding on the past - his own, and that of Greece - the author remains essentially English ... Equally, at times, Harry Mount has an air of being the living embodiment of the study of classics itself: noble, solitary, uneasily beleaguered, and sporting a slightly silly hat Spectator