CLASSICS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Epic Poetry, Iliad, Dactylic Hexameter
30 Oct 2017
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Subject to human desires: hera, wife and sister of zeus; queen of the olympians, but not the mother to most of them, very jealous of zeus, hermes: Son of zeus; messenger of the gods; patron of merchants, travers, thieves; escorts souls to the underworld: apollo: Son of zeus and her; god of fire, metal work, craft; one food is disabled: demeter: Sister of zeus; goddess of wheat, agriculture; maternal: dionysus: Son of zeus (not hera); god of wine, poetry, drama, masks, ecstatic dancing and signing; apart form the others; danger: hades, brother of zeus; king of the underworld; technically not an olympian (he does in live in olympus) Some dates: earliest performance: around 800 bc, written transmission begins ca 750 bce, book divisions, final editions: after 323 bce, hellenistic-era scholars in alexandria (egypt) homer: no certain information, rumour in antiquity, a blind bard; blind=divinely inspired.
