CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heinrich Schliemann, Myrmidons, Ashlar
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Metopes little squares on top of the buildings depicting scenes as pictures. Ataraxia piece of mind, absence of all the trouble. *stock phrases (epithets) and characters (sometimes more than 1) Trying to respect the natural line of the natural greek. About greeks, but greeks at war, against troy. First excavated by frank calvart and heinrich schliemann came along later (schliemann obsessed with homer) *schliemann kept digging fast without recording the upper layer. Troy 11 homer"s troy according to him, but potteries from earlier period was found. The actual city of priam (in homer) troy 6, 7. Ashlar movement control typical of very powerful settlement. Agamemnon"s castle (according to schliemann the death mask of agamemnon. It begins with in medias res (in the middle of) in trojan war. *homer assumes that everyone already know the details of the trojan war. *gives flashback in the middle of the story (odyssey) The trojan war starts from the birth of helen.
