Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Hero's Journey

by Thomas Van Nortwick and Nortwick Van

Book Overview

The ancient hero's quest for glory offers metaphors for our own struggles to reach personal integrity and wholeness. In this compelling book, Van Nortwick traces the heroic journeys in three seminal works of ancient epic poetry, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid. In particular, he focuses on the relationship of the hero to one or more second selves, or alter egos, showing how the poems address central truths about the cost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195101278
• ISBN13: 9780195101270
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"