ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Hector, Ajax (Mythology), Punic Wars
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You can see how old because of the layers found in the story. Clearly an older oral text before published. People don t know for sure if homer existed. Greek individuals living in close proximity to troy. Troy was in ruins at the time it was written. So already being written as an old story, looking back. Greece won the trojan war, everyone knew this. Knew the story of the war and the people in it. Iliad is a cross section of a bigger story, before greece even invades. The readers don t know how things will unfold and how the minor characters will act in the situations they are put in. Not just a historical recount but also a tragedy (genre) Something falls, the hero falls, the city falls. 3000 year old, older than that orally, many different versions before the invention of the printing press.
