CLCV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chryses, Epic Poetry, Chryseis
19 Sep 2017
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Will take 15 mins: mid-term exam will be right after fall break, will have the whole class time. The iliad also doesn"t end with the end of the war, it is in the middle: the lateness of the homeric poems is noticeable if you read them, they presuppose a lot of mythology. Why begin with homer: something important to address is that homer is a name given to the poet who supposedly wrote the famous poems. It is the name of an imaginary person, there is no real person with that name in history: the homeric poems took shape in a centuries-long oral poetic tradition throughout regions of greece. If you went to different places, you would get slightly different versions of the same story: people started to notice this. This gave impotence to the solidifying of the. Local versions continue to exist until the 3rd century bc, until scholars in.
