Juventus Mundi
Subtitle: The Gods And Men Of The Heroic Age
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780548043493
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: IF, as the general opinion holds, the Iliad and the Odyssey are the works of an individual poet (whom we term Homer), they are probably, as a connected whole, the oldest in the world; though a few of the Books of Scripture, and, in the opinion of some, a portion of the Vedas, may perhaps lay claim to a higher antiquity.