Juventus Mundi
Subtitle: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9781410204783
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Ancient and 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.