CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ilus, Clytemnestra, Hesione
7 Oct 2015
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Heroic past: stories of gods and men. Iliad and odyssey became the standard, norm. Helpful tricks for the bards: traditional stories, metre (dactylic hexameter, repeated words & phrases: Epithets: adjectival phrases to describe a hero, an army, a place. Some dates: earliest performance: , written transmission begins ca. 750 bce: book divisions (24), nal editions: after 323 bce. Rumor in antiquity: a blind bard; blind = divinely inspired. Homeric question : authorship of iliad & odyssey, unitarians: one master poet responsible for both, analysts: collaborative process or patchwork process. Narrates a very short time frame within the trojan war. Story of ilion (latin: ilium), the city we call troy. Begins in the nal year of a ten-year war. Greek army: small kingdoms from all over greece. Greeks called different names: argives, danaans, achaeans. Agamemnon and achilles: a quarrel for honour. 50 sons and 50 daughters of priam (not all by hecuba: hector (eldest, ghter, leader of army), paris (alexander)
