PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Odysseus, Argonautica
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Cultural centre of greek world in the hellenistic period (323 bce- He incorporated greek poets, greek games, and greek tragedies into his country. He created many cities during his travels and named them. * athens is no longer the place literature and culture is coming from* Poets of the time were scholars, and engaged in skilled competition. It burned down and almost everything was lost. Wrote down everything and wanted to keep a copy of everything. These scribes actually kept the originals and gave out the copies (sneaky) * beginning of the academia we have today. He was once head librarian of alexandria library. Preferred to keep it shorter, more succinct= original. * happens before the odyssey and illiad * )n a poem by callimachus, (cid:498) keeping to the back roads(cid:499) . Apollo gives him advice instead of guiding his words. A wicked stepmother is intent on killing the children (her husband had with another woman)
