{"product_id":"homer-whole-a-reading-of-the-iliad-paperback-1","title":"Homer Whole: A Reading of the Iliad - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003eis one of the most misinterpreted--and thereby maligned--books ever\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomposed, recited, or written. Eric Larsen's \u003cem\u003eHomer Whole \u003c\/em\u003esets out to correct this misreading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the great epic, to move it out of the caves of primitivism current readers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsign it to and raise it to its proper place as the central foundational work of modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eliterary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneralizations like \"Homer glorifies war,\" \"Homer's highest value is violence,\" or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"honor in Homer is gained only through pillage, slaughter, and war\" are heard too\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoften to be suffered easily, and they are also incorrect, being half-truths no less false\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethan \"girls are bad at math\" or \"Frenchmen are arrogant.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading the \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003ewith an open rather than a pre-judging or pre-selecting mind--that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis, reading it \"whole\"--brings to light psychological elements, philosophic dimensions, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemotional nuances, and myriad dramatic subtleties that remain forever locked in darkness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor those who assume, believe, or have been taught that the poem is \"primitive,\" that it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomes from \"an age of barbarism,\" extoling only pillage, greed, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003ehas in it much blood, gore, suffering, and death; but it also, in Blake's great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ephrase, holds much \"Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love.\" To emphasize one side of the poem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eover the other; to assume one to be \"good\" and the other \"bad\"; one \"barbaric\" and the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother \"civilized\"--this is to read the \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003ewith one eye closed and the poem reduced to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone-dimensionality, the poem's aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical textures and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edepths--the essence of its modernity--unseen and unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomer Whole \u003c\/em\u003edescribes and elucidates the real reasons why the \u003cem\u003eIliad \u003c\/em\u003ehas survived as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseminal classic that it is, reasons unknown to most readers, both inside academia and out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703758778675,"sku":"9780988334328","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/vOc6KDq3p99780988334328_c7342bad-b7a3-4653-93e2-0eee5701f587.webp?v=1763337721","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/homer-whole-a-reading-of-the-iliad-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}