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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This is to thank everyone who, over many years, knowingly or not, has helped me along Homer's tangled paths.

George Fairhurst; Vassilis Papadimitriou; Gavin Francis; Robert Macfarlane; Ali Serle; Juliet Nicolson; Rebecca Nicolson; Aurea Carpenter; Andrew Palmer; Paul Johnston; Alexandra Chaldecott; Ivan Samarine; Jim Richardson; Oliver Payne; Claire Whalley; Koenraad Kuiper; Liz Broomfield; Mary Keen; Laura Beatty; Martin Thomas; Matthew Reynolds; Matthew Rice; Nicholas Purcell; Philip Marsden; Robert Sackville-West; Richard Klein; Sarah Longley; Sigrid Rausing; Stephen Romer; Thomas Pennybacker; Casey Dué; David Sansone; Garry Fabian Miller; Charlie Burrell; Issy Burrell.

Sofka Zinovieff is the best friend, guide and companion anyone could wish for. Tim Dee took me to all sorts of Homeric places in a way that transformed my understanding of Homer. Caroline Alexander came and talked about my Homeric ideas for many vigorous and illuminating hours. David Anthony provided supremely helpful signposts to the world of the steppe.

I would particularly like to thank Kylie Richardson of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Matt Hosty of Jesus College, Oxford, for the care and trouble they took in saving me from the worst of mistakes. Needless to say, they bear no responsibility for those that remain.

At Henry Holt, Courtney Reed has been efficiency itself and Jack Macrae nothing short of an inspiration. I would particularly like to thank Zoë Pagnamenta, my agent, for encouragement and brilliance over many years.

Above all I want to thank my wife, Sarah, and the children for co-habiting with Homer, who is not the easiest of houseguests, for quite so long. This book is dedicated to them.

Sarah Raven

Molly Nicolson

Rosie Nicolson

Benedict Nicolson

William Nicolson

Thomas Nicolson

 

INDEX

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Abydos

Achaea

Achilles

Briseis and

death of

ghost of

hair of

hands of

lyre and

meeting of Hector and

shield of

steppe culture and

Addison, Joseph

Aegean Sea

aegis

Aegisthus

Aeneas

Aeschylus,
Oresteia

Aesop

Afghanistan

Africa

Agamemnon

Briseis and

death of

Agricola, Georgius

Ahhiyawa

Ajax

Alaksandu

Albania

Alcinous

Alexander the Great

Alexandria

Ptolemaic library

alphabet

Phoenician

amber

amethyst

Amurru

anagn
ō
rsis

Anatolia

Andalusia

Andromach
ē

animals

sacrifices

See also specific animals

Antiop
ē

Aphrodite

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apollo

Apulia

Aramaeans

Arcadia

archaeology

Buchner and

Petrie and

Shaft Graves

Troy

Ulu Burun ship wreck

Ar
ē
s

Argolid

Argos

Aristarchus

Aristotle

Rhetoric

Armenia

Arnold, Matthew

arsenic

Artemis

Ashnan

Asin
ē

Astyanax

At
ē

Athene

Athens

Atlantic Ocean

Atreus

Attarissiya

Attica

Auk

axes

Azores

azurite

Babylon

Bachelard, Gaston,
The Poetics of Space

Baghdad

Bagot, Reverend Walter

Bajgori
ć
, Halil

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de

Balkans

Baltic Sea

Barlow, Joel

Ba
Å¡
i
ć
, Ibrahim

baths

of Circe

beach

leaving a

beauty

of warriors

Belarus

Bellerophon

Benbecula

Bentley, Richard

Beowulf

Berlin

Bible

birds

Odysseus visited by

Black Sea

blackwood

Blackwood's Magazine

Blake, William

Blegen, Carl

blindness

Boardman, John

Bogaskale

Bosnia

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

bow and arrow

Briseis

British Museum

bronze

spearheads

tin-copper alloy

weaponry

Bronze Age

cross-continental journeys

European

iron in

Ulu Burun ship wreck

weaponry

White Horse

Broodbank, Cyprian

Buchner, Giorgio

Bulgaria

burial mounds

Butler, Samuel

Byblos

Byzantium

editions of
Iliad

caesura

Calabria

calcite

Calliope

Calvert, Frank

Calypso

Campania

Canaan

cannibalism

canoes

Caravaggio

Carthage

Caspian Sea

Caspian steppe

cattle

Caucasus

Cebriones

Celts

coins

Chalcondyles, Demetrius

Chania

Chapman, George

chariots

races

technology

childbirth

children

graves of

of Troy

China

Chinflón

Chios

choreia

Christianity

cinnabar

Circe

city-states

Clarke, Charles Cowden

classicism

Clytemnestra

coinage

Celtic

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Collins, Tim

Columbus, Christopher

Congreve, William

Constant, Benjamin,
Adolphe

Constantinople

copper

mining

copying texts

Corinth

Cornwall

Cortés

cosmology

Cowper, William

crafts

creed

cremation

Crete

writing

crocus-cloth

Crusades

cummings, e. e.

cuneiform

Cyclades

Cyclops

Cyprus

Czech Republic

dactyls

Daedalus

dance

Dante

Danube River

David and Goliath

dawn, departures at

Dead Sea Scrolls

death

burial mounds

Egypt and

funeral pyre

Iliad
and

masks

meadow of

of Patroclus

Pithekoussai graves

thump

threat of

visit to Hades

See also
graves

dedm
ē
to

Deïphobus

Delos

Delphi

Demodocus

Denmark

departures

for Hades

De Quincey, Thomas

destiny

diadems

Diodorus Siculus

Diomedes

dogs

metal

Dol
ō
n

Dörpfeld, Wilhelm

doupein

dromoi

drought

Dué, Casey

Easton, Donald

ebony

economies

Egypt

Alexandrian Homer

gold

Hawara Homer

poverty in

scarabs

Sinuhe and

eisos

Elba

elegy

Eliot, T. S.

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Elp
ē
n
ō
r

Emporio

Enlightenment

epics

hexameters

spoken

See also specific epics

Escorial

Eteocles

Etruria

Euboea

Euphorbus

European Bronze Age

Eurycleia

Eustathius

Evans, Arthur

Examiner

Extremadura

stone stelae

Fagles, Robert

Odyssey
translation

faience beads

Fairhurst, George

fame

farming

Neolithic

Faroes

fate

fathers

missing

Fayum Depression

Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Finucane, Ronald

fish

Florence

Laurentian Library

flowers

food

horse as