CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Basileus, Homer, Sarpedon
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U(cid:374)like ho(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272) poe(cid:373)s (cid:449)he(cid:396)e autho(cid:396) does(cid:374)"t (cid:396)eall(cid:455) i(cid:374)t(cid:396)ude (cid:374)o (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)ete so(cid:272)ial/histo(cid:396)i(cid:272)al (cid:272)i(cid:396)(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)e hesiod tells us (cid:449)he(cid:396)e he lives, about his family, where he performed his poems. And is part of a fluid oral tradition that goes back to the ba. The poems are eventually written down as early as the 8th century, as late as the 6th century bc. Period starting around 750, transition from dark age to archaic period. Lots of the key features of eap society does not exist in the homeric poems. Seems to mean something similar to basileis in hesiod. No formal political structures that bestow upon the basileis the authority that they have. They have it because they can demonstrate it and relay it. Women who are elites enjoy various degrees of status. Elite ideology persists well into the historical period. A wider range of action than is enjoyed by any woman in any period except for maybe the hellenistic queens.
