CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hexameter, Casus Belli, Shame Society

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

The iron age, the use of bronze weapons was replaced by iron. Greeks the spread out across the world. Wrote long poems about the history and literature that were taught to their apprentices who then must memorized it to tell it to the people. This iliad was written about the trojan war. Troy is not exactly found yet but there is evidence that it was real, and there is a grou(cid:374)d that (cid:373)at(cid:272)hes ho(cid:373)er"s (cid:449)riti(cid:374)gs. It was written in a way to promote memorization, since so many people were illiterate, everything was passed on by word of mouth. Aiodoi would record, and rhapsodes were the ones that memorized. Heinrich schliemann discovered the remains of 11 stages of cities that were built on top of themselves through time. He found the city that looked and was a(cid:272)(cid:272)urate to the stories of ho(cid:373)er"s (cid:449)riti(cid:374)gs. U(cid:374)til (cid:449)e can positively find that evidence, we cannot say that it is troy.