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‘Homer’ in the subtitle is slightly cheeky: yes, there is a snatch – a most amusing snatch – from Book 8 of Homer’s Odyssey (the tale of war god Ares being literally ensnared by craftsman god Hephaistus having adulterous sex with his sex-goddess wife Aphrodite), but the unifying theme of the beautifully produced book’s 14 sections, divided according to deity or divinities, is provided by what are called Homeric Hymns, none of which has been believed since ancient times to be actually by Homer (whoever he might have been…).
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