CLST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chauvinism, Epic Poetry, Rhapsode
21 Jan 2016
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Though social and political institutions remained constant if small-scale the pace of material progress, measured in terms of craft production, quickened around 900 bc and later: organized social formations. Epic poetry, based on an oral tradition handed down over many. Epic poems are long narrative tales, told in verse and sung or generations, emerges in this era, as well. recited in front of an audience: thought to begin in this period. Eventually written down in the later 8th and early 7th centuries. Bc, the iliad is roughly 16,000 lines long, and the odyssey. 12,000: verse, some receited in front of audiences, singer travel from various sites, verse was repetitive and aided in memorization, when epic poems fixed, or set compositions uncertain, debated. Vary between bards and places, improvise on spot: fixation on homer and texts, later 8th and 7th centuries .
