CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mycenaean Greece, Hoplite, Iliad
30 Jan 2017
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Last lecture talked about mycenaean kingdoms and their collapse. The greek tablets of linear b were backed in the fires. When we see it re-emerging, the greeks are identifiable in ethnic subgroups via dialectics. The words are just slightly different between them. Homer is written at the end of the archaic age, recalling the mycenaean kingdoms. Kings have religious duties, but the public doesn"t need him to reach god anymore. Fundamental unit is family, oldest living male is dominant economic/religious leader of the family. The stories don"t sound the same when translated. Every hero has adjective that goes with their names - a product of oral storytelling. The homeric poet was at the end of this tradition, he was the first to write it down, a hodgepodge of word types. Greeks taught the alphabet to the etruscans - they can"t hear the guh sound (sounds like cuh). Thus they used gamma for their cuh words.
