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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: the Odyssey and the Iliad.
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Travelling Heroes, Robin Lane Fox
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Travelling Heroes
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robin Lane Fox
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140244999
- ISBN13
- 9780140244991
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Mythology, Ancient History, Greece, Travelers, Greeks
- Original title
- Travelling heroes
- Rating
- 3.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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: the Odyssey and the Iliad.