Following up his Homer and the Epic, Lang reconstructs the world the Iliad and Odyssey describe: its lands and peoples, the over-lordship of Agamemnon, life in peace, men and women, and the conduct of war. Against critics who carved the poems into later and earlier layers, he argues that they portray one coherent period.
A spirited case for Homeric unity by the scholar best known for his coloured Fairy Books. Download the free EPUB.