Alex Homer Jack

The Circle of the Dance Alex Homer Jack

The Circle of the Dance takes its title from a divine image in the Iliad and Odysseus's visit to Phaeacia in the Odyssey, referring to the return of the Golden Age. The book explores universal dimensions of Homer's timeless stories, focusing on illuminating new interpretations of Achilles' Shield, Odysseus's Oar, and Calypso's Axe-symbols that are key to understanding the poems' deepest and highest meanings. The book offers a spirallic, multidimensional view of literature, art, and dance, weaving together the personal and the social, the natural and the supernatural, the comic and the sublime. It begins with the author's own mythic roots that find resonance in these beloved tales and ends with a supreme vision of the Olympian heights.