CLCV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Minos, Thrinacia, Beeswax

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1002
• Professor: J.J.Gahan

Document Summary

Bard/rhapsode > a professional who recited the homeric poems. Homeric poems are believed to be from ionia. References to homer"s own day (8th century) in the iliad and the odyssey (iron weapons, cremation, First texts seem to have been written 550 bc statues depicting seated figures) Set in scheria > people called phaiakians. Geographers argue that homer wrote part truth, part fiction. Modern scholars argue it is completely imaginary. 2 minor adventures, 1 major adventure > book of the underworld (xi) does not follow this. Book xiii > odyssey"s last port of call before scheria, where in books ix-xii he tells of all, ending with mention of kalypso, who is treated in detail earlier in the epic. Him and his men go to ismarus, city of the cicones. The men plunder the land and stay until the. Odysseus locks them in the ship to escape. They sail into the land of the cyclopes.