CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Muwatalli Ii, Odysseus, Alaksandu
17 Sep 2016
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Clst 102 lecture 3 sept 16 th. The war of troy (ilion): legend and history. The two poems were composed in the second half of the 8th century bc, even though they reached the form in which we have them now a little later. Geometric bronze figure of aoidos (poet-singer) from crete. The poems were performed at festivals, games and other public and private events. In 522 bce hipparchus, tyrant of athens with his brother hippias, arranged for the iliad and the. Odyssey to be recited at the main festival or the city, the panathenaia. Image: rhapsode, attic red-figured vase, c. 490 bce. Ancient accounts of his life are largely demonstrable fictions. Chios and smyrna both claimed to have been homer"s birthplace. There are differences between the two poems. Some scholars use to argue for different authorship. Highly traditional and formulaic diction suggests oral composition of the poems.
