Somewhere I Have Never Travelled

Exploring the hero''s journey as a metaphor for spiritual evolution in The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer''s Iliad, and Virgil''s Aeneid, and focusing in particular on the relationship of the hero to one or more "second selves," or alter egos, Van Nortwick demonstrates how the poems address central and enduring truths about human life: that the exertion of heroic will in pursuit of glory can lead to ali...