Homer on Immortality

THE JOURNEY OF ODYSSEUS AS A PATH TO PERFECTION

Roger Sworder

The Prometheus Trust are pleased to introduce our latest publication - Homer on Immortality, the Journey of Odysseus as a Path to Perfection, by Roger Sworder .

"The most noble and worthwhile task which challenges Classical scholarship in the twenty-first century is the re-interpretation of Homer's epics as scripture.  This done, and Homer restored to the philosophical canon, the history of Greek philosophy will be transformed from an account of the origins of empiricism into the unfolding of a wisdom as pertinent to us as to its first hearers.  In my view the task of understanding the first philosophers of our era has largely to be done over again.  In that task we will do much better to take ancient philosophers and modern poets as our guides rather than the present Academy"

Roger Sworder graduated Master of Arts from the University of Oxford, taking his degree in the study of Classical Philosophy and History in the original languages.  He undertook doctoral studies at the Australian National University with a thesis on Plato's theory of knowledge.  He has published one book, Mining, Metallurgy and the Meaning of Life, on the consecration and, more recently, the desecration of these crafts in Western history.  Sworder lives and teaches in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.  He is a lecturer in the Department of Arts at La Trobe University, Bendigo.  He is a member of a team of lecturers which provides one of the very few courses in traditional studies in the West today.  At Bendigo, students are introduced to the earliest phases of our era on the understanding that those people might have understood our common humanity better than we do.

Homer on Immortality

  The Journey of Odysseus

as a Path to Perfection

Roger Sworder

ISBN 1 898910 42 1

£11.99

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