Homer's secret odyssey /
Wood, Florence.
Wood, Kenneth,1935-
Stroud : History Press
2011.
This title 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 on the fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior king Odysseus.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-232) and index.
This title 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 on the fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior king Odysseus.
Homer
Astronomy, Greek, in literature.