Keld Zeruneith's THE WOODEN HORSE to be Published on October 30

In a powerful and provocative work of scholarship, The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind from Odysseus to Socrates, Danish literary critic Keld Zeruneith offers a magnificent new survey of Greek myth, religion, poetry, drama, and philosophy. When Odysseus conceived the so-called "Wooden Horse" to overcome the stalemate in the Trojan War, something more profound was being established: resolution through strategic thinking rather than brute physical conflict. Kirkus Reviews calls The Wooden Horse a "sweeping, accessible inquiry to what the makers of classical Greek literature were thinking about." Zeruneith, a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters and a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen for over thirty years, will be honored at a reception hosted by Overlook Publisher Peter Mayer on October 30 in New York.