CLCIV 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pariaman, Achilles, Phoneme

• School: U of M
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCIV 101
• Professor: Richard Janko

Document Summary

Lecture 7: homer and the invention of the alphabet. Friend (philos) = relative, friend, fellow-citizen, guest-friend (xenos) Homer and the big issues of the eighth century b. c. e. The shift from monarchy to aristocracy the eighth-century renaissance . They created a national consciousness of shared religion and language > panhellenism. Worship at mycenaean graves (cult of heroes ) Composition of the iliad, about last panhellenic enterprise ever undertaken. What happens when the monarch is less effective than his followers. Creations of a bard called an aoidos ( singer ), like the bosnian. Oral poems largely created our ideas of literature evidence: influence of homer on vergil, milton, joyce etc. By dictation to a scribe as they were being composed so writing must have existed then. Phoneme = minimal unit of sound in human speech . The names of the letters mean nothing in greek: "aleph = ox , beth = house , gimel = camel , daleth = house .