Tom Holland

Bright sparks of the Dark Ages

Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer, by Robin Lane Fox<br /> <br type="_moz" />

issue 06 September 2008

  • Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer

    Robin Lane Fox

    Allen Lane, pp. 514

Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer, by Robin Lane Fox

In Book II of the Iliad, Homer describes for the first time a Greek advance across the plain of Troy. Various similes are deployed to convey its impact, most of them precise and vivid, as Homer’s similes invariably are.

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