CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Heinrich Schliemann, Northern Greece, Mycenaean Greece
Document Summary
Works & days shows us the hardships of the dark age = pessimism. Theogony shows us the difficulties but introduces the gods and shows hope. The iliad lays out the ideals and the values. It is the first monumental illustration, the greek bible so to speak. The iliad is used by philosophers & can even be used as arguments in court. Later the greeks adapted the iliad to their present moment. Ex: the trojan women (shows the savagery of the war in greece). Homer was the classic for the greeks & romans just as the greek & roman societies are classics for us. The story looks a lot like the mycenaean period. It was probably composed in the late 700s bce. The puzzle: it seems to have been written in a period with no written poetry and only the most basic use of linear b.
