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发表于2024-10-21
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“Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…and his excitement is contagious.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time.
Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer’s poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes “a third space” in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims “to bind the wounds that time inflicts.”
The Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 B.C. when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean.
The poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.
(英)亚当·尼科尔森
英国历史学者和作家。出身文坛世家,曾在剑桥伊顿公学接受教育。著有《纽约时报》畅销书《上帝的大臣》 《海的房间》《西辛赫斯特》等。其中《西辛赫斯特》获得2009年“英国皇家翁达杰文学奖”。他还曾获毛姆文学奖、海涅曼图书奖、英国地形学奖,是英国皇家文学协会会员、苏格兰考古学会会员。
译者
吴果锦,英语文学翻译。主要译作有《国王的演讲》、《预见力》、《谁拯救了农场》、《伊丽莎白女王传》等。
雨果说,一部杰作已经成立,便会永存不朽。第一位诗人成功了,也就达到了成功的顶峰。你跟随着他攀登而上,即便达到了同样的高度,也绝不会比他更高。哦,你的名字就叫但丁,而他的名字却叫荷马。恩格斯说:"荷马的史诗以及全部神话――这就是希腊人由野蛮时代进入文明时代的主...
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