CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Anchises, Oileus, Ionic Greek
24 Aug 2016
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Who is homer? ancient biographies don"t usually exist died when he didn"t solve a riddle for an arcadian fisherman (cant truss any info) connection with ionia, in northern asia minor. German archeologist: heinrich schliemann: discovered site of troy in the troad (northern asia. Minor, near modern istanbul) one layer sacked in 12th century bc; linked with troy? talks about a bronze-age society. Helen (most beautiful of all greek women); daughter of zeus and leda; wife of the king of. The greek army raised to regain helen from troy her willingness to go with paris is presented ambiguouslu in the illiad; portrayed as longing for her homeland and attracted to her new lover. Versions:: helen herself didn"t go to troy but only phantom of her did; pretext for war; planned by zeus as a necessity in order to reduce the population of the earth.
