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Islands in the sky : the four-dimensional journey of Odysseus through space and time / by Rose HAmmond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammond, Rose.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature.
- Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
- Cosmology, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Homer provides an enormous challenge to the student; the potentialities of these lengthy texts are legion and the scholarship vast. The author has relied upon her knowledge of symbolic discourse to make a fresh study of the Odyssey, prioritising early neighbouring religions, their mythology, and shamanic practice. The latter has yielded particularly rich material concerning the axis of the world (axis mundi) as a route to the stars and the world of the gods. Man's shared experience of the nig...
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hammond, Rose. Islands in the sky : the four-dimensional journey of Odysseus through space and time.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-4538-8
- OCLC:
- 827209208
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