El mundo de Homero : una guía de viaje por la Ilíada y la Odisea (Colección Ares y Mares) - A Travel Guide to Homer: On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean

John Freely

[Barcelona] Critica Editorial / Grupo Planeta (GBS)

2015

376 páginas

12h 32m

ISBN-13: 9788498927993

Espanhol

Un universo de deslumbrante belleza, que sigue emocionando a los lectores de hoy, a los tres mil años de su composición. Este libro nos invita a un viaje en que laIlíada y laOdisea nos servirán de guía para recorrer el mundo de Homero «desde Troya primero a través de la costa turca del Egeo y luego por las riberas del Mediterráneo, siguiendo las huellas de Odiseo cuando va a combatir en la Guerra de Troya y luego, tras pasar numerosas peripecias, de regreso a su patria con su familia en Ítaca». John Freely, que ha vivido muchos años en Grecia y en Turquía, y que tiene un buen conocimiento de los hallazgos recientes de la arqueología, no pretende ofrecernos un relato de viajes por los escenarios homéricos, sino que nos lleva a ellos con la Ilíada y la Odisea en la mano, en un recorrido en que el objetivo no es el paisaje, sino el mundo de Homero, con la intención de introducirnos en un universo de deslumbrante belleza, que sigue emocionando a los lectores de hoy, a los tres mil años de su composición.

In October 1945, at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been mesmerized with Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. Throughout his life spent exploring both these lands and the stories by and connected to Homer, Freely has forged a captivating traveler's guide to Homer's lost world and to his epics— The Iliad and The Odyssey—investigating where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters are and what it was about the landscapes of Greece and Turkey that influenced and inspired Homer— arguably the greatest classical epic poet.This will be a traveler's guide to all of those places linked to Homer that can be identified and it will also speculate on where such places as the Land of the Lotus Eaters might be. With a revealing introduction to Homer and his times and an outline of the wanderings of Odysseus, the book follows in his footsteps from Troy to his final return to Ithaca. Finally, Freely illuminates how the Homeric epics took their final form and their subsequent echoes in literature, art, legend and folklore: all part of the romance of the wandering hero.