Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Homeric Question, Orthopraxy, Theogony

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

Homeric question: pic: isra pound; reworked homer"s poems, difficult to say if homer is accurate: Singer of 8th century, storehouse of languages from previous 400 years. Some things= right but not for time period spoken of. Making people do things during the time periods that wouldn"t be able to be done until later on. Layers of language, impossible to translate unless you lived in time period, invented own lyrics. Poems: mishmash of centuries and different regions (ex. Anger of achilles: given slave girl for great valor, but she is taken away, abstains from battle after having slave girl taken away, king comes back & tells him he"ll give him a wife, swords, rewards, palaces, Unity of design: world dominated by worth, king kidnaps daughter of priest, god apollo comes down because his worth has been challenged, throws plague on greeks, no one behaves with modern morality ex. justice.