CL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ionic Greek, Trojan War, Middle Ages
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Ionic greek indications it merges with aelion greek. Connected with story of troy and trojan war. Homer is closely related to oral culture. They are often made up as the poet goes along. A lot of homer does not get written down until the 4th century ad (almost middle ages) Translates to the song of ilios (troy) Whenever the word ilios is mentioned there is always a beat missing. Theory that has somewhat been backed up is that when we look at ilios there are indications that when there is something missing it means this word contained a structure that is understood but not written down. Perhaps ilios was an old mycenaean word wilios. Letter are being translated and they reveal that there is evidence that one city is writing to another for help because they are being invaded. Read homer to undertnad the structure of the greek mind (after aristotle,
