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The Wooden Horse is a powerful, provocative, and engaging new workby perhaps the worlds most insightful and acclaimed historian of the ancient worldthat establishes the foundation of the Western worlds conceptions of society, philosophy, and poetry by tracing the processes by which consciousness evolved from its roots in the mother cults of Ancient Greece, with its attendant matriarchal mode of thought, to be replaced by a patriarchal world of laws with a religious counterpart in the Olympian gods.
By examining Homers great epic poems, The Illiad and The Odysseythe Wests most comprehensive picture of the heroic age, which documents the fact that the Trojan War stalemate was resolved through strategic thinking (via Odysseuss invention of the wooden horse) rather than brute physical superiorityKeld Zeruneith explores this fundamental paradigm shift, which constituted nothing less than the liberation of the modern mind.
With close analyses encompassing the poetry, drama, philosophy, and history of the ancient world, Keld Zeruneith casts a new light on our cultural ballast and provides startlingly original insight into the psychological forces behind the genesis of European culture.
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The internationally recognized magisterial history that traces the development of the Western mind to its origins in Ancient Greek literature.
About the Author
Keld Zeruneith is an internationally recognized literary scholar and historian. Among his many awards is the Gyldendal Prize, Denmark’s most distinguished literary honor, which was awarded for The Wooden Horse upon its publications there in 2004.
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- PublisherAbrams Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 158567818X
- ISBN 13 9781585678181
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
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