CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Odysseus, Panathenaic Games, Orality

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Colivicchi Fabio

Document Summary

Clst 102 lecture 3: the war of troy (ilion): legend and history. Lecture 2): communicates by poetry (big component of. Poetry: good for passing information, easier to remember than probes. War of troy: can recognize the past relationships with other countries: the narrative of homer"s lliad: Very early stage of history (second half of the 8th century bc: bust of homer. Don"t know about the life of homer. Claim homer as a fallacy: geometric bronze igure: Stringed instruments and singing (there was a music) The poem was largely known and orally known: hipparachus: Poem has to be recited at the main festival of the city, the panathenaia. Tools of memory and sign of culture: homeric problems: Two poems have diference (diference in literature, language they used) Orality and literacy: pictured homer as great poet (assume that he is inspired by gods) Later 90s: found that greek poems are sophisticated and complex and reined poem was created.