From War to Wonder: Recovering Your Personal Myth Through Homer’s Odyssey

From War to Wonder, Dennis Slattery’s new book, not only explicates the beauty and power of the Odyssey, Homer’s twenty-seven-hundred-year-old marvel-filled epic, it also offers a marvelous way to interact with it on a daily basis. Those who do so will be amply rewarded by finding access to the poem's myriad meanings, as well as their capacity for forging their own personal myths.~Phil Cousineau, author of Once and Future Myths, and editor of The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and WorkWhat a beautiful invitation this book proffers: to spend a year slowly savoring one of the great masterpieces of world literature and day-by-day discovering how it illumines and deepens your understanding of your own life.~Christine Downing, author of The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine and Mythopoetic Musings: 2007-2018 Read more