CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hephaestus, Wilusa, Alaksandu
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Topics: trojan war: myth and history, thucydides" view, archaeology of troy, thersites, shield of achilles. Homer"s accounts boar tusk helmet, as used by odysseus in book 10 of the. While homer knew next to nothing about the mycenaean age, it is clear that he had some knowledge such as the boar"s tusk helmet. Later views on homer and the trojan war. Athenian historian sees trojan war as history but history that needs to be rationalized no greek/hellenic nation in that age however, minos and agamemnon are seen as real people to him takes this for granted. Homer and hesiod archaic age poet try to represent past but intermixed with culture of his own age. Anatolia troy modern turkey hill that schliemann dug up ancient troy. Schliemann in the 1870s dug up troy, mycenae. Myth trojan war of the heroic age archaeology no texts, few weapons walls, stone level vi destroyed around 1300 b. c.
