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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 particular
ly 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
anagnōrsis
Anatolia
Andalusia
Andromachē
animals
sacrifices
Antiopē
Aphrodite
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Apollo
Apulia
Aramaeans
Arcadia
archaeology
Buchner and
Petrie and
Shaft Graves
Troy
Ulu Burun ship wreck
Arēs
Argolid
Argos
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Rhetoric
Armenia
Arnold, Matthew
arsenic
Artemis
Ashnan
Asinē
Astyanax
Atē
Athene
Athens
Atlantic Ocean
Atreus
Attarissiya
Attica
Auk
axes
Azores
azurite
Babylon
Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space
Baghdad
Bagot, Reverend Walter
Bajgorić, Halil
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de
Balkans
Baltic Sea
Barlow, Joel
Bašić, 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
dedmēto
Deïphobus
Delos
Delphi
Demodocus
Denmark
departures
for Hades
De Quincey, Thomas
destiny
diadems
Diodorus Siculus
Diomedes
dogs
metal
Dolōn
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
Elpēnōr
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
France
frescoes
Pylos
funeral pyre
for Patroclus
Gaelic
galena
Galicia
gangs
Iliad and
St. Louis
gardens
Gautier, Théophile
Gaza
Genesis
Germany
World War II
Nazi
ghosts
Gibraltar
Gilgamesh
Glaucus
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold
Celtic coin
cups
jewelry
of Troy
Goliath
Goncourt, Edmond de
Goncourt, Jules de
Gorgythion
government
grains
grammar
graves
of children
horses and
masks
mounds
Pithekoussai
Shaft
single burials
Sintashta
Stone Age
Thapsos
weapons in
Great Britain
World War II
Greece
Bronze Age
Dark Ages
Hellenistic
Iron Age
Mycenaen
origin of Greek consciousness
Greek
classical
early written
first printed Homer
Hawara Homer
Linear B
Gulf of Argolis
guslars
Hades
departure for
Odysseus and
hair
blonde
dark
of Goliath
of warriors
hands
Harrison, Richard
Harvard University
Hattusa tablets
Hawara Homer
Hayasa
Heaney, Seamus