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We have been inspired by the myths of the ancient Greeks for tens and thousands of years. Where did the well-known tales of the fights of the gods distribute and create around the globe? The famous classicist Robin Lane Fox pulls on a lifetime’s understanding of the historical world, and on their own moves, addressing this issue by seeking it through age Homer. His recommended background examines the way the seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed round the Mediterranean, experiencing strange new sights—volcanic hills, vaporous rises, large primitive bones—and weaving them in to the myths of monsters, gods and characters that will get to be the foundation of Western culture.