HIST 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heinrich Schliemann, Dactylic Hexameter, Homeric Greek
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There are a serious quesions that deal with homer that afect the way we study the text. He was a bard performer who sang at fesivals and he was blind. These were apart of a oral tradiion and. The lair that schliemann ideniied dates to a much earlier period was not troy. Much too early for a trojan war. His discoveries actually do not validate homers batles. There might have been some conlict amongst the greeks and the hiites at the end of the bronze age. Possible that wilusa is the hiite texts referred to troy. Evidence of periodic conlict between hiites and myenaean. We don"t kno when people were singing songs of the destrucion of troy. Homers descripion of people were not bronze age civilizaions. Homer seems to be comepletely unfamiliar with mycenaean past. Unitarians : iliad and odyssey product of one excepional genius. They wanted to ignore the fact that there was a historical tension between diferent periods.
