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Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: The Second Self and the Hero's Journey in Ancient Epic
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled The Second Self and the Hero's Journey in Ancient Epic
Author: Thomas Van Nortwick
Exploring the hero's journey as a metaphor for spiritual evolution in The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Virgil's Aeneid, and focusing in particular on the relationship of the hero to one or more "second selves," or alter egos, Van Nortwick demonstrates how the poems address central and enduring truths about human life: that the exertion ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195071498
ISBN-10: 0195071492
Publication Date: 9/12/1991
Pages: 204
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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