HUMA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Narrative Poetry, Mycenaean Greece, Demigod
28 Sep 2017
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A long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes, in a grand ceremonious style. Focuses on what happens between, what he learns, looks at history. Highly detailed, makes it more realistic and historical. Composed his 2 epics in the 8th century bce. Probably played the primary parts of shaping the narratives. The author was not one single person, a group of people (including women) Telling of epic stories sang or told by bard. More than works of literature, knew them by heart, used as moral learning. Oral poems, handed down and added to through time. Odyssey represents a world full of inconsistencies. Wednesday, september 27, 2017: polytheism (meaning, of many gods, anthropomorphized. Homer"s epics probably based on the mycenean culture that ourished between. 1400 to 1100 b. c. e: greece went through a dark age after this. Women had some access to learning, but it was limited.
