CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Aegean Civilizations, Odysseus, Kulturkreis

• School: McGill University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 203
• Professor: Francois Gauthier

Document Summary

Lecture 10: homer and the trojan war (continued) The iliad may have been an historical event quite remote in time. Herodotus writes that according to him it was somewhat 800 years before his one time (around 12th century bc). Greek attack on troy was the cause of perennial (almost eternal) hostility between the. Greeks and what they called the asians (ie. the acheans). Sculptors and face painters often chose to portray scenes of the iliad on various vases but they did not try to recreate historically accurate figures, as they are most often clad in contemporary armor (classical and archaic periods). Greeks did not have access/knowledge about the past. A way for greeks to show and emphasize heroes was to paint them naked (cid:494)heroic nudity(cid:495) (artistic convention recognized by most. Thucydides(cid:495) writing the history of a war that we should believe in due to inquiries, people at the time).