HIST 2850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dactylic Hexameter, Epic Cycle, Ischia
2 Jan 2020
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The iliad and odyssey heroic epic: tradition says was composed by homer who was thought to be a single individual who live ca. 8th: bce, a professional teller of tales, like a bard or a minstrel, a native of ionia in asia minor, and blind, according to tradition, by tradition, the composer of odyssey and iliad. Epic cycle and the homeric epic: all the epics belonging to the epic cycle have been lost; only two prose synopses (by proclus and. I am nestor"s cup, good to drink from. Whoever drinks this cup empty straightaway desire for beautiful-crowned aphrodite will seize him. Dactylic hexameter: dactylic hexameter (also known as heroic hexameter") is a form of rhythmic scheme in poetry (think beat). It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both greek and latin. It considered to be the grand style of classical poetry. The premier examples of its use are homer"s.
