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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。
不知道是不是编译者不用心,书中公元和公元前总混杂。(逼死强迫症)在一段大体讲述公元前八百年的段落里反复出现公元八百年,相差一千六百年啊。导致看时间的时候总要思考,有的时间也难以判断。(我所说的具体在102-112页之间)不过我手里没有原版所以无法考证对错,如果是我理解...
评分【前言】 接触荷马时,我还是个初中生。记得当时,自己一个人跑去博鳌书城买下了一本《奥德赛》,不厚也不薄,印象中大概200多页。现在想来,那本估计是经过处理的,并非原版。时隔许久,在我读完《耶路撒冷三千年》后,我无意中看到《荷马3000年》这本书。《泰晤士报》如是撰...
评分很抱歉占用长评,这里主要收集一些翻译错误(然而现阶段只搞出来4处),将来有了时间可能会继续添加。 原文依据archive.org上 Henry Holt and Company 2014年出版的版本。 另外,本书有两种书名,分别是北美的Why Homer Matters和欧洲的The Mighty Dead。 正片 1. 原文: Here,...
评分【前言】 接触荷马时,我还是个初中生。记得当时,自己一个人跑去博鳌书城买下了一本《奥德赛》,不厚也不薄,印象中大概200多页。现在想来,那本估计是经过处理的,并非原版。时隔许久,在我读完《耶路撒冷三千年》后,我无意中看到《荷马3000年》这本书。《泰晤士报》如是撰...
评分正如书名那样,《荷马史诗》的两部诗集《伊利亚特》和《欧德赛》是西方的神话历史和精神世界源泉。几千年来,众神、英雄、个人、自由、冒险主义、向往未来等是西方的模式。 亚当·尼克尔森的《荷马3000年》,站在前人对荷马的认识和积淀的基础上,开拓了一条让我们读者充分理解...
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