Homer's Secret Odyssey
eBook - ePub

Homer's Secret Odyssey

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Homer's Secret Odyssey

About this book

Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Author’s Note
  5. Illustrations
  6. Homer’s Secret Iliad
  7. 1 Ancient Epics & Long-lost Secrets
  8. 2 Homer: A Man for all Ages
  9. 3 Odysseus & the Moon
  10. 4 Elements of Time & a 19-year Odyssey
  11. 5 Homer’s Wizardry with Numbers
  12. 6 Odysseus Freed to Return Home
  13. Odysseus’ Adventures
  14. 7 Troy to the Land of the Lotus Eaters
  15. 8 Goat Island & Polyphemus
  16. 9 King of the Winds to Circe’s Island
  17. 10 Hades & the Ghosts
  18. 11 Sirens to Calypso’s Island
  19. 12 Odysseus: The Invisible Hero
  20. 13 Odysseus Triumphant
  21. 14 Cycles within Cycles: Penelope, Helen & Heroes
  22. 15 Ancient Learning & the Dawn of a New World
  23. Appendix 1 Lunations of the 19-year Cycle
  24. Appendix 2 19-year Cycle & Draconic Month
  25. Appendix 3 Summary of Methodology
  26. Bibliography
  27. Copyright