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Author Hammond, Rose.

Title Islands in the sky : the four-dimensional journey of Odysseus through space and time / by Rose Hammond.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 378 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary Homer provides an enormous challenge to the student; the potentialities of these lengthy texts are legion and the scholarship vast. The author has relied upon her knowledge of symbolic discourse to make a fresh study of the Odyssey, prioritising early neighbouring religions, their mythology, and shamanic practice. The latter has yielded particularly rich material concerning the axis of the world (axis mundi) as a route to the stars and the world of the gods. Man's shared experience of the nig ...
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Subject Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)
Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- In literature.
Cosmology in literature.
Cosmology in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hammond, Rose. Islands in the Sky : The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus through Space and Time. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2012 9781443840187
ISBN 1443845388 (electronic book)
9781443845380 (electronic book)
1443840181
9781443840187