CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dactylic Hexameter, Epic Poetry, Iliad
5 Jan 2017
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Heroic past: stories of gods and men. Iliad and odyssey became the standard: traditional stories, metre (dactylic hexameter, repeated words & phrases: Epithets: adjectival phrases to describe a hero, an, army, a place. Ex/swift-footed achilles; owl-eyed athena (these depends on the translator) Book division, (cid:498)final(cid:499) editions: after (cid:885)(cid:884)(cid:885) bce (cid:498)homer(cid:499) Rumor in antiquity: hellenistic-era scholars in alexandria (egypt, a blind bard; blind=divinely inspired (cid:498)homeric questions(cid:499), authorship of iliad & odyssey, unitarians: one master poet responsible for both, analysts: collaborative process or patchwork process. Narrates a very short time frame within the trojan war. Story of ilion (latin: ilium) the city we call troy. Begins in the final year of a ten-year war. Greek army: small kingdoms from all over greece. The greeks are called different names which show the lack of unity. Zeus+ mortal woman=dardenus(favourite son out of children from mortal woman) 50 sons and 50 daughters of priam (not all hecuba) Leader of the army: paris (alexander)
