TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART II; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART III; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; PART IV; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX
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 ..
