The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story of
This major new two-volume edition of the Iliad replaces that of Arthur Ludwich (1902-07). Martin West makes use of some 1500 papyri of the poem, more than half of them unpublished. He has also collect
'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking:
The Odyssey is one of the earliest works of European literature, second only to the Iliad. These two great epic poems, the astonishing first fruits of Greek civilization, have together determined much
"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place:when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doomand gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,only this man longed for his wife
Two veteran psychiatrists unravel the mystery of how thought and emotional patterns are passed from parents to children, generation after generation, "conditioning" each of us in ways that endure thro
"Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place:when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doomand gone back home, away from war and the salt sea,only this man longed for his wife
