CLCV 1002 Lecture 6: Lecture 06

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1002
• Professor: Gahan J.J.

Document Summary

Fall of troy (1250, traditionally 1184 b. c. ) It is not known whether he was blind or not (portrait of homer) He is dated contemporary from (1250 - 750), 500 years after the trojan war. The island chios is thought to be a possible area of his birth, which is located in the east. The poems are thought to have come from the coastal area known as ionia, because of the dialect that they are written in. He talks about seated status, that was not a thing during the bronze age. There is also cremation which was not practiced by the mycenaean. Battle formations: during the bronze age arguments were settled as duals: the greek used is a combination of two mainland dialects. It is most likely that in the 8th century that the poems were not written down, but rather he would have spoken them and then later on they would have been written down: {see sowerby page.