CLA201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homeric Greek, Quiet Life, Clytemnestra
Document Summary
Greek written text developed from earlier oral versions. Tradition says it was composed by homer who was thought to be a single individual who lived in 8th century bce, a professional teller of tales (bard or minstrel), a native of ionia in asia minor, and blind. Events reflect a time, setting, culture and events that took place 400 years before the poem was composed (gap is the dark ages) This story is not an entertaining retelling of the trojan. War but a reflection of the problems of the upper class of the 8th century in view of rapid economic and social restructuring and of the general change in values associated with it. In the main structure the narration has been composed as an obviously well planned unity (a period of change, and how values change as the society changes) Aoidoi: singer at the royal court of the phaeaces; as an indirect self portrait, his slightly idealized description (od.
