Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Semonides Of Amorgos, Homeric Hymns, Chryses

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

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Cs1000 weekly index #4. Swift-footed achilles; black ships: argued that these were aids for oral composition. The texts were transcribed while the singer was performing: this seems impractical: the scribe would need to be very, possible problem with the incompatibility of oral and literary composition fast; would require a lot of paper. Idea that literacy compromises oral skill: this idea is the result of the study of a yugoslavian poet, whose skill declined after he became literate. It does not fully take into account the style of literacy in early. Homer"s iliad: a long and complex poem, narrates a limited portion of the trojan war story the definition of epic is very much at practice in the iliad, ex. Chryses prays to apollo, who causes a plague in the greek camp; the. Greeks recognize this as a plague from a god: agamemnon agrees to return the girl to end the plague. This is a big insult to achilles status war.