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The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands

of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods

develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist

Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient

world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing

it through 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.

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Robin Lane Fox is a Fellow and Garden Master of

New College, Oxford, and a University Reader in Ancient History.

His books include Alexander the Great, Pagans and

Christians, The Unauthorized Version, and The

Classical World. Since 1970 he has also been gardening

correspondent for the Financial Times.

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“Multilayered and beautifully written. . . . [Lane Fox’s] great

gift is to make this long-ago world a vivid, extraordinary and

sometimes frightening place. Like Homer’s yearning traveller, Lane

Fox longs to be there, and his longing is contagious.”

—Elizabeth Speller,

The Sunday Times

(London)

“Full of wit and suspense. . . . Lane Fox argues his case with

tremendous style and verve.”

—Mary Beard,

Financial Times

“A fascinating quest . . . that illuminates the roots of Greek

thought and ideas that have shaped our own world and philosophies.

. . . Lane Fox is a lively writer.”

—Lois D. Atwood,

The Providence Journal

“Exciting. . . . With his usual panache, [Lane Fox] displays

encyclopaedic erudition alongside an unusually wide historical and

geographical scope. The pleasure and the education offered by this

book lie in the stylishly presented detail.”

—Edith Hall,

The Times Literary Supplement

(London)

“As we follow [Lane Fox] through the pages of this learned,

original and ceaselessly intriguing book, we find a strange and

alien landscape opening up before us, one so remote that it had

hitherto seemed lost to utter darkness. . . . This is a wonderful

book.”

—Tom Holland,

The Spectator

(London)

“Original, daring, and arguably life-enhancing. . . . Lane Fox

[writes] with a sweeping narrative flourish worthy of a

cinematographer or screenwriter . . . seasoned and leavened with a

wit that only writing can afford.”

—Paul Cartledge,

The Independent

(London)

“Lane Fox has spent his long and distinguished career negotiating a

broader intellectual highway, and leading a wide range of readers

along it.

Travelling Heroes

takes us on a dazzling journey

throughout the Mediterranean world of the 8th century BC [and] he

evokes the period brilliantly.”

—

The Telegraph

(London)

书籍介绍

The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through 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.