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The Homeric poems have always accompanied Vassos Karageorghis in his long archaeological career, just as the Gospel guides a monk. Iliad and Odyssey have been a standard point of reference and source of inspiration for the distinguished scholar of Cypriote archaeology ever since his student years and his excavations at Salamis up until his most recent ones at Palaepaphos. As a result, a large part of his publications has a Homeric tone, to a lesser or greater extent.

Seeking a way out of the the recent Covid lockdown, Vassos Karageorghis has turned once more to the unique sanctum of the Homeric poems, inviting us to a charming journey into the world of Homer and his heroes. Relying on his six-decades-long experience in the research of the poems and of the archaeology of their era, the author offers us a unique glimpse into important aspects of the Homeric universe that concern essential and timeless features of human civilization, such as questions of life and death, old age, love, family and marital affairs. In addition, by combining the testimony of the poems and of the archaeological researches, he highlights some important cultural expressions of the society in the years of Homer