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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖr's Landscapes: The Iliad

Adam Nicolson traces the origins of poems at the root of European thought, visiting the locations of the Trojan War in ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖr's Iliad.

Adam Nicolson travels along the eastern Mediterranean, from the Ionian Sea to the western coast of Turkey to trace the origins of the poems at the root of modern European thought.

Adam travels to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖr's Troy, walking the plains and visiting the ruins of its citadel, finding that although ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖr is thought to have been blind, it is possible to directly map ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖr's great poem of war onto the coastline of the Aegean, the beach of the Greek camp, the Scamander River and the hewn stone walls of Troy.

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  • Sun 6 Apr 2008 21:50
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