Daily Life in the Time of Homer

by: Mireaux, E.

Price: 28,17 EURO

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Daily life in the time of Homer

Authors:Émile Mireaux (Author), Iris Sells (Translator)

Summary:"It [this book] may be regarded as an example of that skill in the analysis and interpretation of the documents, of which the French are past masters. It is cool, objective and at the same time sympathetic; and the reader may well be amazed at the richness, the detail and the complexity of the life which is here evoked."--Translator's preface

264 pages 22 cm

Contents:
The background and setting
The manor house
The life of a nobleman
The religious and intellectual professions
Peasants and soldiers
The lower classes and the cultivation of the land
Public workers and craftsmen
Blood vengeance and the family
Homer's women
Popular festivals: funeral rites: public games
Wanderers and expatriates
Homer's message

Daily Life in the Time of Homer

by: Mireaux, E.

• The Macmillan Company, New York, 1962

Price: 28,17 EURO

1 copy in stock