CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Iliupersis, Golden Fleece, Aeneas
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Epic poetry: from the archaic to the hellenistic to the roman. We are talking about the really long poems. Ie. one long finger bone, and two shorts, for 6 repetitions. The last dactyl would be two long. It was for teaching morals and for teaching young men how to be men. The subject matter would have to be of a lofty sort (eg. topic of heroes, poetry of. Hesiod, the gods, instructing you how to do something, such as hesiod"s works and days) The epic diction helped them remember and to recite it at different times. Lord and parrry were the first to write about techniques: To add to that and fill up their line. These helped poets to compose and recite without any notes in front of them: type scenes. Long similies expand on short similes with a relative clause (the of the whose cubs . Compared to a shepherd (agmennon the shepherd of the people)
