Why Homer Matters Audiobook

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• Nicolson's spirited exploration illuminates our own indelible past.

  — Kirkus Starred Review

• “Complex, personal, and profound…a brash and brave piece of writing… [The world of Nicolson’s] book, filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad, can change the way we see ours.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Nicolson has written the book that was waiting to be written…a superbly written account of the poems.”

  — Times (London)

• “Highly accessible…[Nicolson’s] globe-trotting passion for his subject is contagious…bringing the heroic age into our own.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “A hosanna to Homeric wandering and wanderlust…breathes new life into an ancient adventure.”

  — Observer (London)

• “Stirring…Nicolson eloquently sums up what we still look for in Homer: ‘wisdom, his fearless encounter with the dreadful, his love of love and hatred of death, the sheer scale of his embrace, his energy and brightness, his resistance to nostalgia.’"

  — Washington Post

• “If I have a serious complaint about this book, it’s that it threatens to be better than Homer—and I say this as a qualified classicist, who is supposed to be extensively trained for snottiness toward an amateur enthusiast like Nicolson.”

  — National Review

• "[A] gracefully written and deeply informed book…Nicolson’s spirited exploration illuminates our own indelible past.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “In this passionate, deeply personal book, Nicolson explains why Homer matters—to him, to you, to the world—in a text full of twists, turns, and surprises.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• "[A] sprawling, lyrical, and frequently intimate exploration…It is Nicolson’s passion for his subject that animates this selection and elevates textual explication into a paean.”

  — Booklist