MKT 300 Lecture : 100618919-Iliad.pdf
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The iliad is an epic poem, a long narrative work about heroic exploits that is elevated in tone and highly formal in its language. It was composed in ancient greek and transmitted orally before it was written down. Many modern translators present the iliad in prose, making it read like a novel. The iliad derives the first two syllables of its name from ilios or ilion (greek for troy) or, alternately, from ilium (latin for troy). The suffix -ad means related to, concerning, having to do with, or associated with. Homer fashioned the iliad, the story of the trojan war, about 600 years after the war ended. The story is a mixture of fact, legend, and myth. Place of action: the walled city of troy and the surrounding plains in northwestern anatolia, a region that is part of modern-day turkey. Anatolia is west of greece (across the aegean sea) and north of egypt (across the mediterranean sea).
