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Penguin UK, 2009. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Group(CA), 2009-07-01. Paperback. Good.

Penguin UK, November 2009. Paperback. Used - Very Good.

Penguin, 2008. Softcover book, 5" x 8", light signs of use (few top page corners lightly turned down) - book and text are very good -- no underlining or markings; XIV, 513 pgs.

Paperback. Very Good.

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Hardback. Good.

London : Penguin, 2008. 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. paperback, illustrated, 514 pages, light creasing to spine otherwise a near fine clean copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B38.

Allen Lane, 2008-09-04. Hardcover. Like New. 5.4061 cent in x 23.5787 cent in x 16.1929 cent in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket HAS WHITE rubbed MARKINGS SMALL FOUR IN ALL TO TOP OF JACKET AND SPINE COVER plus owners stamp(s) / signature - will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

Allen Lane. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0713999802 . One bumped corner else Fine. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 528 pages; Oxford classicist [Robin Lane] Fox explores the 700s BCE, the century to which he imputes the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Explaining that this was an era of cultural contact between Greeks—specifically, those from the island Euboea—and residents of the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean Sea, he delves deeply into the nature of that exchange. Aiming to evoke the Euboeans' mind-set, he springs from the archaeological traces of their settlements to the gods and heroes of the Near East they adapted into their own myths. While there is considerable textual explication of Homer and Hesiod involved in Fox's procedure, he pulls the mythical characters from the pages and places them in the physical landscapes with which the Euboeans not only associated them but believed they actively inhabited. So doing lends the… Read More

Penguin, UK, 2009. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Medium Trade Paperback. 514 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 2009. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. But where did they originate? Esteemed classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime's knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, to open up the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad.… Read More

Penguin, 2009. Paperback. New. 528 pages. 8.11x5.04x1.34 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights - volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones - and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization: the Odyssey and the Iliad.

Allen Lane, 2008-09-04. Hardcover. Very Good. 5.3959 in x 23.5821 in x 16.1877 in.

London: Allen Lane, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Larger 8vo. pp. 514, ""This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story…

Penguin, London, 2009. Soft cover. Condition: Good. Moderate reading wear. Very clean interior. .

London: Allen Lane, 2008. 1st edition. Cloth with dustjacket, 24 cm, 513 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations. Cond.: zeer goed / very good. ISBN: 9780713999808. .

Allen Lane, 2008. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition first impression hardback, 2008, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - small name and address label to title page upper rh corner; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.