ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alcidamas, Hisarlik, Hexameter

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Alexander Cram

Document Summary

Dark age ends with the revival of greek culture -- 776 bc first olympics. Greeks west semitic writing - phonetic writing system. Homer - professional storyteller possibly - phoenician word. Life of homer, the suggestion that he was a blind poet. Agonistic - the competion behind everything they did. Homer and hesiod ----- alcidamas ---> hesiod won a stool. Homer was real bc the greeks believed he existed. Homer wrote a story set in troy around 750 set in ca 1200bce. Found 7 layers of cities where homer said it would be. Found remains of a magnificent walled city - resembled city of troy. Looked like troy, was found where troy, and was destroyed how troy was destroyed at the time, but we cannot say it was troy. Evidence of conflict between the two between the writing of the iliad and. Out of time - homer"s account of the war was anachronistic (like using a cell phone in 300 bce)