CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Odysseus, Shame Society, Panathenaic Games
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Homeric poetry oral poetry not written didactic hexameter meter in which epics are written poetry is composed in performance an improvised musical format. Orality and history erosion of oral accuracy over time. Homeric poetry presents its audience with a fictional world, with epic distance . When was homer written? no agreement in antiquity about when homer lived ancient sources not useful. Morris and powell 8th century b. c. Powell theory that writing was invented in order to write down homer"s works unlikely theory however other possibility that homer was written much later. Panathenaea all athenian festival to athena in athens typical oral context 1-2 hours. B. c. some formulae may be very old does not make sense for the 8th century bc. But in bronze age oral fluid tradition goes back to the bronze age, but dating cannot be before the 8th century b. c. because there was no script before then.