Ebook: The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant?;1. Meeting Homer -- 2. Grasping Homer -- 3. Loving Homer -- 4. Seeking Homer -- 5. Finding Homer -- 6. Homer the strange -- 7. Homer the real -- 8. The metal Hero -- 9. Homer on the steppes -- 10. The gang and the city -- 11. Homer's mirror -- 12. Homer's Odyssey.