Somewhere I Have Never Travelled The Second Self and the Hero's Journey in Ancient Epic

Name: Somewhere I Have Never Travelled The Second Self and the Hero's Journey in Ancient Epic
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ISBN: 9780195071498

ISBN-10: 0195071492

ISBN-13: 9780195071498

Edition: 1992

Authors: Thomas Van Nortwick

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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 of heroic will in pursuit of glory can lead to alienation from one's own deepest self and that spiritual wholeness can only be achieved through confrontation with what appears at first to be the very negation of the self. Though addressing issues of interest to classical scholars the book offers an interpretation of the poems which is accessible to…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/12/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English