CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trojan War, Minoan Civilization, Orality
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Whenever possible emails will be answered within 48 hours , but students should not expect an instantaneous response (especially over weekend) Of ce hours: tuesday 11-12pm, li 125, or by appointment. Textbooks: "the essential homer", "metamorphoses" go online at: http://go. utlib. ca/ cat/11614668. For extra reading, "classical myth" by barry b. powell. Midterm 1 october 17- one hour (lecture after) Not able to find the true correct story. non-textual anonymous- there is no author; we do not know; there is tellers of myths which do have authors, but the myth itself has no author irrelevant- truth value. Archaic period- great fertility, things regenerated from the dark age. Palaces- had complex structures, looks like a labyrinth. Kings: warlike: bronze weapons. chariots, fortifications ("cyclopean walls", mentions of gods: zeus, hera, poseidon, athena, arthemis, dionysus, mythical setting for the trojan war (schliemann) Linear b: deciphered by michael ventris in 1952. 1200s: mycenaean palaces destroyed by fire; writing all lost.
