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| ISBN: | 1443845388
9781443845380
1443840181
9781443840187
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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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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| 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
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