CLAS 1000H Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Marine Biology, Scheria, Odysseus
3 Oct 2016
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Not enough is known about the poet who is the basis of the entire modern greek education. Friedrich august wolf- german scholar, wrote book entitled introduction to. Homer , questions how homer or others wrote down the epic poems attributed to him. Professional reciter known for holding staff as they recite memorized epics such as homer"s. Milman parry- californian scholar, known for noticing that homer"s epics were written in dactylic hexameter. Dactylic hexameter- meter with six divisions, and long-short-long or long-long form, similar to the joints of a finger, dactylic . Guslari- modern oral singers who accompany songs with one-stringed instrument called gusle. Aoidoi- greek oral poets or singers, origin of word ode . Heinrich schliemann- german man who made a fortune in business and spent it proving that the trojar war actually happened and that troy was a real place, which had been previously doubted.
