CLA204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dactylic Hexameter, Oral Poetry, Cypria
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The iliad: tradition says it was composed by homer, a single individual who lived ca. It is because of this metrical scheme that people figured out that these poems were. Not out of the blue, but actually based on a whole catalogue of stories. These poems were half made-up on the spot: if you were a bard, what you did was like modern day freestyle rap. Achilles will go to troy, fight admirably, and have all the riches and undying fame, but he will die at troy: it is made very clear in the iliad that achilles cares more about. Aristeia: think of the moment when a hero on the battle felied just destroys the enemy and youre like wow this is awesome. Iliad 1. 9-15, plague on the beach: aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374) disho(cid:374)ou(cid:396)s ch(cid:396)(cid:455)ses, apollo"s p(cid:396)iest, (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)lai(cid:373)i(cid:374)g his daughte(cid:396, after chryses offers him a randsom and agamemnon refuses, apollo sends a plague upon the.
