ANTIQUITY Travelling Heroes: Greek and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 440 pp Did the Greek myths really originate with a group of Dark Age adventurers? wonders Richard Miles

The Sunday Telegraph London | September 21, 2008| | Copyright

Travelling Heroes is a rare beast among academic books. Not for Robin Lane Fox the narrow path of specialisation; he has spent his long and distinguished career negotiating a broader intellectual highway, and leading a wide range of readers along it.

Lane Fox is ambitious for and demanding of

his readership, too. There are none of the over-generalisations or embarrassing stabs at contemporary 'relevance' here that beset so much 'popular' history. Lane Fox believes that his readers are capable of following complex arguments and ingesting diffuse and unfamiliar information.

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