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Homer´s Secret Odyssey
Kenneth Wood
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Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752460413
SKU
V9780752460413
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99-10
About Kenneth Wood
Florence Wood graduated in mathematics, has a Diploma in Statistics and worked in education. Kenneth Wood was both an Assistant Editor and Features Editor of the Manchester Evening News. They have worked together on four published books with historical themes. In researching their previous book they took Classics courses at Manchester University, travelled in Greece with an Open University tutor, ... Read more
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