ANCW20022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Homeric Scholarship, Homer
13 Mar 2017
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Epics took form around middle of 8th bc. Late 6th bce peisistros required the epics to be read at the panathenaia (festival to honour athena every 4 years) Late 6th c bc homer became important focus of intellectual study in own right. Sophists (can also be seen as developing out of the poetic wisdom) Guide book to how to rule/ behave as members of aristocracy. 400 bce publication of first edition with intro & glossary by antimakhos of kolophon. 3rd c bce scholarship at the museion (alexandria) Not written in everyday language epic language. Talking about different world from world where they are being read. Partially restored by a gift of 200 000 vols. from mark anthony to cleopatra. Each created their preferred texts based on copies at alexandria. One of the early, detailed textual sources for greek. Important tole in shaping greek religion, along with. Epithets/ texts show different aspects of the same gods, such as zeus.
