HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homeric Hymns, Eleusinian Mysteries, Homeric Question
29 Aug 2016
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The homeric hymns: homer, the formal characteristics of the homeric poems, the homeric question (how could someone who is blind depict the world so beautifully?, homer in text and performance, homeric hymns: to demeter, aphrodite, dionysus, moschus" europa. Greek tradition said that homer was a poet in the 9th or 8th century b. c. Married, had children; son-in-law was a poet. He is inspired by the muse- goddess of art. Poets ( singers work as entertainers in the houses of great men (od. They sing their poems, accompanying themselves on a lyre (od. Representatives of a long tradition of oral poetry. There are 33 hymns dedicated to different gods and divinities. Etiological myth: story that explains why things happen. Tells the story of the abduction of persephone by hades, god of the underworld. Reveals the grief and struggle of demeter to win her daughter back. The story explains why we have seasons and is the basis for the eleusinian mysteries and.
