CLAS 201 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ancient Rome, City, Reading F.C.
20 Nov 2018
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He was a blind song singer from the island of chios. Poet of the iliad, the odyssey and the homeric hymns. People try to find the places in the stories. Talks about remains of bronze age palaces (greece 12 - 16 century. Hear about the appearance of iron as a medal during bronze age, but wasn"t heard about during this time period. Realized that what he found and the city were far more complex to pin down to one historical moment or event. Philology: study of languages within its ancient context. Performance practice: use to figure it out how different things work. Part of an oral tradition describing a panhellenic world. Heroes from all over the world, and places and other traditional myths being woven in. Meter: poetry, but it is not just poetry (greek meter isn"t rythmic, its about length) Repetition: clear sets of metrics, something happening over.
