01:190:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heinrich Schliemann, Troy Vii, Homer

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Classical Humanities
• Course: 01:190:205
• Professor: John Mc Glew

Document Summary

Homer depicts gods differently than in the odyssey: iliad gods are seen by people, while in the odyssey they are more remote (iliad = probably older) Strife visited their wedding (causes athena, hera and. Aphrodite to fight over who is the fairest) it"s aphrodite so she rewarded him and said helen was the most beautiful mortal. Greek lit = tradition of sons deposing fathers. Thetis tells zeus (who owes her) to help her son by punishing agamemnon and the greeks for not giving her son (paris?) respect. Inhabited from 3000 bce, found by heinrich schliemann: ^ he was basing it off of the iliad (grew up reading it) 9 different periods: troy vii: 1300-1190 bce. Period with the widespread destruction of mycenaean palaces. Probably the troy represented in the iliad: focus of the iliad is never on skill focuses on gods favor playing a part. Seen as a representation of the dark ages and archaic (focus towards community)