In "The Iliad", battles between Greeks and Trojans mirror the movements of stars and constellations as they appear to fight for ascendancy in the sky. This astronomical content has been rediscovered and is unlocked in this book.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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failed project,
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This review is from: Homer's Secret Iliad: The Epic of the Night Skies Decoded (Hardcover)
The redactors/editors/authors of this book have done a pitiful job converting the notes of their deceased relative into a readable book. Her basic insight is that the archaic texts we call Homer's Iliad may embrace a terrestrial geography whose conception takes its formal aspects from the highly visible celestial geography which every contemporary Greek knew like the palm of his well-calloused hand. The particular instantiation of this geography as found in the Iliad repeats, she thinks, the land masses and sea lanes depicted in the story and that some of these stand in a one-to-one relationship with the various ancestral heroes of those lands who fought at Troy. Hence Odysseus and his home of Ithaca may be represented by the constellation and para-constellar stars we know as Bootes. Some other story may have required a different instantiation of the same celestial geography. While this may seem fantastical to our modern way of thinking, it is prima facie plausible given the archaic Greek way of thinking. All one has to do is read the description of Hephaestus's geography which he forged into the fabric of the shield he fashioned for Achilles (Iliad, 17).But moving from plausibility to believability (let alone conviction) requires argument; and the editors into whose hands these ideas have come, do not know in the least how to fashion an argument. The book as written is just one concatenation of question begging after the next. It was simply beyond their powers to undertake this project. Their mentor knew the Iliad intimately; they do not. They take general conclusions that likely took multiple examples to establish and state them as fact without producing the examples. Sorry, but even this reviewer, who is sympathetic to the whole idea, ran out of patience trying to see behind the mish mash as presented to the insights that inspired them.
4 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nicely written but wrong.,
By Marc-Olivier (London UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Homer's Secret Iliad: The Epic of the Night Skies Decoded (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed the reading untill I find that: Hector(Rigel)is killed in "the fleshy part of the neck"(p.76). This stars is actually located in the left knee(p132-231). The stars presented in the neck is Heka. It is really unfortunated that the "arche-type" is so confuselly handled.
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