古希臘研究權威凡爾農教授為本書作者，他以深厚的學術知識執筆，擺脫一般片面的故事大雜燴型態，為我們重新解讀這個充滿了天馬行空的浪漫色彩，將自然和思維擬人化，最終表現光明和美麗的古老神話。 作者認為神話故事是活生生的，意義也不僅僅是研究考證，故事必須不斷被講述，代代相傳成為日常生活中的一部分，否則就只是棄置於圖書館書架深處，一偏偏僵死的文字，此為與一般坊間書籍的相異之處。凡爾農希望藉由口述者的角色，傳遞、保存古希臘的珍貴遺產。

古希腊艺术是西方艺术的源头，本书介绍的就是古代地中海地区孕育出来的丰富的美术遗产，带领读者重归古希腊、古罗马，探究艺术的诞生历程。

isbn: 9787542630971

“Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt…and his excitement is contagious.”—James Wood, The New Yorker Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek—and our—consciousness, collapsing the passage of 4,000 years and making the distant past of the Mediterranean world as immediate to us as the events of our own time. Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past, sewn together by the poems themselves and their metaphors of life and trouble. Homer’s poems occupy, as Adam Nicolson writes “a third space” in the way we relate to the past: not as memory, which lasts no more than three generations, nor as the objective accounts of history, but as epic, invented after memory but before history, poetry which aims “to bind the wounds that time inflicts.” The Homeric poems are among the oldest stories we have, drawing on deep roots in the Eurasian steppes beyond the Black Sea, but emerging at a time around 2000 B.C. when the people who would become the Greeks came south and both clashed and fused with the more sophisticated inhabitants of the Eastern Mediterranean. The poems, which ask the eternal questions about the individual and the community, honor and service, love and war, tell us how we became who we are.

本书古亚美尼亚文、古希腊文、中文对照，是中国学界第一部论述古亚美尼亚哲学及其与古希腊哲学交流的著作，也是国内学界第一本出现古亚美尼亚文的学术著作。 本书以中世纪古亚美尼亚著名学者无敌大卫及其代表作《亚里士多德<前分析篇>评注》为研究对象，试图揭示这部作品对亚里士多德逻辑学的继承和创新，并结合众多古希腊学者对亚里士多德的阐释来探明古典逻辑哲学的发展脉络以及古亚美尼亚和古希腊的思想交汇。 本书分为两部分，第一部分综述大卫的生平和著作，详述其《<前分析篇>评注》，并将大卫放在更为宏观的文化语境中，来揭示他的文化意义及其对亚里士多德在古代世界的传承；第二部分是对大卫《<前分析篇>评注》做评注式和问题式研究，试图以古代评注的方式进行现代的再阐释。