HIST 3P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Basileus, Thersites, Odysseus

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Oral poetry written in alphabetic script, once greece literate again: c. 750bce. 400-55 years after trojan war could have taken place. Homeric epics = result of oral poetry-transmitted through the dark. Bards/rhapsodes (sing-sticher) at banquets e. g. demodokos or odysseus himself in od. Perry & lord 1930s) poetry in metre (hexameter) Changes over time: audiences accept exaggeration in exploits of the heroes but insist on some realism in what they do and how they behaved: the world portrayed has to be recognizable and believable. E. g. fighting techniques (single combat) or humane features (hector) or social organization. Homeric society (dark ages: within a territory-many separate but affiliated villages (demes, one main baseless and many other subordinate aristocratic basileis in a territory (od. 8. 390f. ) dominated by the aristocrats/basileis but members of the demos can speak (like thersites) Council (boule) - other lesser basileis in the territory (cf. Agamemnon + other basileis debate course boule (council) - probouleutic function of action/plan = decision = agenda.

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