The Baltic Origins Of Homer S Epic Tales

Author : Felice Vinci
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594776458

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The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales by Felice Vinci Pdf

Compelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean • Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece • Identifies the true geographic sites of Troy and Ithaca in the Baltic Sea and Calypso's Isle in the North Atlantic Ocean For years scholars have debated the incongruities in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, given that his descriptions are at odds with the geography of the areas he purportedly describes. Inspired by Plutarch's remark that Calypso's Isle was only five days sailing from Britain, Felice Vinci convincingly argues that Homer's epic tales originated not in the Mediterranean, but in the northern Baltic Sea. Using meticulous geographical analysis, Vinci shows that many Homeric places, such as Troy and Ithaca, can still be identified in the geographic landscape of the Baltic. He explains how the dense, foggy weather described by Ulysses befits northern not Mediterranean climes, and how battles lasting through the night would easily have been possible in the long days of the Baltic summer. Vinci's meteorological analysis reveals how a decline of the "climatic optimum" caused the blond seafarers to migrate south to warmer climates, where they rebuilt their original world in the Mediterranean. Through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats performed by their ancestors in their lost homeland was preserved and handed down to the following ages, only later to be codified by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Felice Vinci offers a key to open many doors that allow us to consider the age-old question of the Indo-European diaspora and the origin of the Greek civilization from a new perspective.

Author : Florence Wood,Kenneth Wood
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0719557801

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Homer's Secret Iliad by Florence Wood,Kenneth Wood Pdf

Author : Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1107027195

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The Cambridge Guide to Homer by Corinne Ondine Pache Pdf

From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.

Author : Janis Paliepa
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781456729011

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The Origin of the Baltic and Vedic Languages by Janis Paliepa Pdf

The following commentaries regard the edition of Latvian Dainas and Vedic Hymns, published in Latvian. This monograph presents a broadened scope and discussion of Baltic and Vedic languages

Author : Robert Bittlestone,James Diggle,John Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521853575

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Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone,James Diggle,John Underhill Pdf

Extraordinary story of the exciting discovery of the true location of Odysseus' homeland of Ithaca.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 1587026937

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Tales from Homer by Homer Pdf

Scenes of battle alternate with tender moments of humanity. Written at ability level grades 4-5, interest grade level 5-12, with a Lexile Level of 820 and a Guided Reading Level of S, in three formats, Computer Book, Audio Book and Paperback Book.

Author : Ione Mylonas Shear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055803194

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Tales of Heroes by Ione Mylonas Shear Pdf

A massive, extensively illustrated work constituting a rich survey and synthesis of scholarship on the Homeric question. Dr. Shear demonstrates that the origins of the tales, that later came to be kno wn as the Iliad and the Odyssey, are to be found in the Bronze Age. She re-examines the ancient references to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey giving us a new understanding of the circumstances which led to the transcription of the texts we have today. Tales of Heroes provides new insights ...

Author : Rhys Carpenter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Folk Tale, Fiction and Saga in the Homeric Epics by Rhys Carpenter Pdf

Author : Lucien van Beek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004469747

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The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek by Lucien van Beek Pdf

How can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like ἀνδροτῆτα καὶ ἥβην? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as τέτρατος beside τέταρτος originate? In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account of the syllabic liquids in Ancient Greek. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and innovative etymological treatment of material from all dialects, including Mycenaean. A new model of linguistic change in the epic tradition is used to tackle two hotly-debated problems: metrical irregularities in Homer (including muta cum liquida) and the double reflex. The proposed solution has important consequences for Greek dialect classification and the prehistory of Epic language and meter.

Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047415596

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A History of the Greek Language by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados Pdf

A History of the Greek Language is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language through the centuries of its existence.

Author : Vesa-Pekka Herva,Antti Lahelma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429783500

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Northern Archaeology and Cosmology by Vesa-Pekka Herva,Antti Lahelma Pdf

In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations from the Neolithic to modern times. The North has fascinated Europeans throughout history, as an enchanted world of natural and supernatural marvels: a land of light and dark, of northern lights and the midnight sun, of witches and magic and of riches ranging from amber to oil. Northern lands conflate fantasies and realities. Rich archaeological, historical, ethnographic and folkloric materials combine in this book with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives drawn from relational ontologies and epistemologies, producing a fresh approach to the prehistory and history of a region that is pivotal to understanding Europe-wide processes, such as Neolithization and modernization. This book examines the mythical and actual northern worlds, with northern relational modes of perceiving and engaging with the world on the one hand and the ‘place’ of the North in European culture on the other. This book is an indispensable read for scholars of archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies and folklore in northern Europe, as well as researchers interested in how the North is intertwined with developments in the broader European and Eurasian world. It provides a deep-time understanding of globally topical issues and conflicting interests, as expressed by debates and controversies around Arctic resources, nature preservation and indigenous rights.

Author : Morten Joramo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1456555243

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The Homer Code by Morten Joramo Pdf

The Homer CodeThe first part of this book sprang out of my initial discovery that Homer's legendary Island of Thrinacia, and Trenyken in outer Lofoten, Norway, are one and the same. At the time, this discovery was just a minor adjustment to the epoch making findings by Felice Vinci, that the whole Odyssey of Odysseus was originally located in the north. But this led me to review everything more carefully, also in light of other researchers, notably Iman Jacob Wilkens and J�rgen Spanuth, and more discoveries followed. The topic of the whereabouts of the world of Homer continued expanding through a later book (Atlantis Unveiled), however, and is now fully covered only in The Lost Civilization of the North from 2015.The reconstruction of the whereabouts of the ancient World of Homer in the North implies that there must have been an advanced culture in the high north thousands of years ago. This was used in the Homer Code as an intro to the Bock Saga, because it lends a lot of credit to what was until recently told about such a culture through an ancient storytelling tradition from Finland. Told from generation to generation in unbroken line since pagan times, the Bock Saga told a story of a Lost Civilization we until now only had been getting glimpses of through legends, conjecture and fairy tales.Ior Bock, the last of the Bock family lineage of storytellers, told from his family saga for 26 years, including where to find hidden treasures proving the validity of it all, until he was brutally murdered in his own home in October 2010. Before that I recorded as much as I could of what he told, through the fifteen years I had the pleasure of getting to know him.This book contains the most of what I have written in English about Ior Bock and the Bock Saga. It also brings some light onto the shadowy forces which eventually destroyed this most ancient culture, but that specific topic is perhaps more fully covered in my other book, Exposing the Alien Conspiracy. Morten Alexander Joramo

Author : Lauri Honko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Epic poetry, Indic
ISBN : IND:30000061638296

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Textualising the Siri Epic by Lauri Honko Pdf

How does an illiterate singer produce a long oral epic? What is the origin of his "text", available only for a fleeting moment at its performance? How can a multifaceted oral performance be transformed into a book? The primary oral textualization and the secondary written codification of the Siri epic, 15,683 lines, are described in detail in the present volume on the basis of recent fieldwork among the speakers of Tulu, a Dravidian language, in southern Karnataka, India. The "oral author", Mr Gopala Naika, is one of the many talented singers of oral epics in Tulunaadu and a possession priest in rituals which use oral epics as their mythical charter and a source of mental therapy.

Author : John Crowe
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Pergamum (Extinct city)
ISBN : 1848765495

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The Troy Deception by John Crowe Pdf

Author John uses Homer’s epics, the Iliad and Odyssey, as the foundation for his research. Composed around 2,700 years ago, these provided the Western world with the foundations of their literature and education. Yet despite their enormous influence on our culture, some scholars today doubt that Homer even existed.John’s discovery adds a new and unexpected degree of integrity to Homer’s descriptions of the Trojan landscape and presents knowledge that has been hidden from the world for over 2,500 years, giving Homeric scholars the opportunity to reappraise the historicity of both the Trojan War and Homer, perhaps the world’s greatest epic poet.John, who hopes his revelations will enhance the credibility of Homer as a witness of ancient history, is inspired by John Lascelles who wrote Troy: The World Deceived – Homer’s Guide to Pergamum and Robert Bittlestone’s Odysseus Unbound. The Troy Deception will appeal to fans of history, in particular that concerning Ancient Greece, and scholars.

Author : Malena Lagerhorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537602284

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Ilion by Malena Lagerhorn Pdf

Melas jumped down from the chariot and stabbed at the man's bleeding belly, so that the bowels became visible and the life breath left his body. He started pulling off the man's well-made armor in shiny leather, but a blow on his shield made him stop. Ialmenus's shadow fell over him. "Do you want revenge or is your mind rather filled with thoughts of booty?" Ialmenus hit his spear on Melas's shield again, and Melas stumbled over and fell on his knees beside the wounded man. He looked up at Ialmenus who was like a black shadow, with the copper-glowing sun in the back. "When Ilion has fallen, you can loot your enemies," said Ialmenus. "When you have killed the men who burned down the house of your father, who burned your mother and your sister." He turned away from Melas and disappeared in the glowing dust and mist. Nordic Bronze Age - a mythical era 3,600 years ago. A time when black ships sailed across the Baltic Sea, when the elite built their power on trade and looting. A time when blood and honor, cunning and shrewdness decided who was the most feared ruler of the all the coasts and islands.Melas has been taken care of by relatives since his family was killed in a Trojan attack. He grows up with his cousin Thoas who becomes his ally in his dream of revenge. Together they swear an oath that they one day, as grown warriors, will sack Troy - Ilion - and burn the city to the ground. When Agamemnon, the most powerful chieftain of the Danaans, calls warriors across the Baltic Sea to a joint attack against Ilion, they see their chance. Ilion is an epic tale about the world's most famous Bronze Age battle ever, the battle of Troy, but in a Nordic setting according to a new theory by Italian nuclear engineer Felice Vinci. Malena Lagerhorn depicts a heroic and glorious era 2,500 years before the Vikings. Ilion is her first book translated into English. "The day has come when my theory has come to life in a fiction novel in the country of the proud Achaeans!" Felice Vinci, author of The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales