CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture 17: The Iliad Part 1
14 Dec 2016
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Most likely date of the trojan war: 1184bc. Heinrich schliemann: found a civilization & deemed it was troy then argued that the trojan war did occur since troy exists. Not necessarily true for there is no physical evidence of the trojan war having happened. Homer"s writing of the trojan war: 850bc, 300 yrs after the war"s speculated date. Arguments for the latter: the books do not flow into one another & plot inconsistencies. Epic poems written in the way of song: use of the dactylic hexameter known as oral poetry" epithets: used as tip-off phrases for performers; often repeated for they fit the epic meter (ex: swift- footed achilles) Epic cycle: the history behind myths and moving through various different stories that draw off from other starting points. Tons of people quoting the iliad and the. Odyssey thus those two works are deemed significant.
