PHIL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Epic Cycle, Classical Antiquity, Cypria
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The people of classical antiquity considered the poetry of homer, the iliad and the. Odyssey, to be their most important literary works. They were not only brilliant works of literature; they were also the charter myths of their culture. Every child had to memorize not only the stories but many of the lines and expressions in the poems also. All classical literature after homer is filled with allusions to his works. The epic cycle was a collection of poems that included all the stories of mythology from the beginning of time until the last events associated with the trojan. Different storytellers devoted themselves to different parts of it. Homer wrote up a series of episodes from the end of the ninth year of the trojan war in the iliad and the. Odysseus" return from troy to ithaca, the odyssey. Aristotle explains that homer also integrated elements that might properly have belonged to other parts of the story of the.
