Roberto Salinas Price

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Roberto Salinas Price (* 1938 in Mexico City ; † August 13, 2012 in Mexico City) was a Mexican author and Homer scholar.

Life

Salinas comes from a family of industrialists, his father was a co-founder of the furniture store Salinas y Rocha (today Grupo Salinas ). Salinas has been concerned with the Iliad and the Odyssey since his youth . He worked as a hotelier and restaurateur for 20 years before devoting himself entirely to his homer studies. He was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society .

Troy theory

Salinas supports a theory that Troy was on the southern Dalmatian coast. He justifies this with numerous references and inconsistencies in Homer's epics.

Work (selection)

  • Homer's blind audience: an essay on the Iliad's geographical prerequisites for the site of Ilios. Scylax Press, San Antonio 1985.
  • Atlas of Homeric geography. Scylax Press, San Antonio 1992.
  • La satanización de serbios: opiniones diversas sobre la campaña malévola de Bill Clinton y la propaganda de desinformación (with Carlos A. Ball). Ediciones Huicalco, 2000.
  • Homeric Whispers. Intimations of Orthodoxy in the Iliad and Odyssey. Scylax Press, San Antonio 2006. ISBN 978-0-910865-11-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6954076/Roberto-Salinas-y-sus-susurros.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / goliath.ecnext.com  
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  3. ↑ http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-10-26.html

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personal data
SURNAME Salinas Price, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican author and Homer scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2012
Place of death Mexico city