CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pederasty In Ancient Greece, Casus Belli, Troy Vii

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Iliad and odyssey (morris and powell chapter 6) Roughly 800-700 bc after the dark age. The stories were told by memory but homer used the new phoenician alphabet to write these stories down. Aoidoi would compose poems and the rhapsodes would be responsible for preserving the memories of these stories. Homer would use anachronisms (using something that is out of time ) Homer would use things from his own period of time to describe the story that took place 400 years ago ex. Homer lived in the iron age and the city of. Troy would have been in the bronze age. The stories are not good representations of the mycenaean period. 11 stages of a city was found were homer described troy to have been (great plains) Troy vii was found (ca 1300-950bc), this city looks like how troy was described by homer but we cannot say for sure if it is troy itself.