CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hectare, Hellenic Army, Trojan War
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Cla160 lecture 4: tthese 2 poems had big influences on the greek culture. An epic relates deeds, gods and heroes that are worth remembering. In homeric epics, the epics focus more on heroes. These poems have a distinctive meter, called the hexameter. The hexameter line of verse has 6 parts called feet. It"s a fle(cid:454)i(cid:271)le verse form and can be used for very solem effects. Both poems narrate events that surrounded the trojan war. Many greek kinds banded together and brought their best army to attack the mighty city of troy. The (cid:272)a(cid:373)paig(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t go (cid:449)ell, the iliad takes pla(cid:272)e in the 10th year of the war. It tells the story of how the greek expedition almost came to an end. Odyssey tells the story after the trojan war. The poems have no claims about who wrote them. Both iliad and odyssey were thought to be written by.
