CGS HU 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: A Messenger, The Tramp, Hrotsvitha
23 Jan 2018
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It remains unclear whether or not homer was a real figure. Potentially several people, or an oral poem with no clear origin. Most likely performed the poems orally to the wealthy. Would have been dictated to someone who could write. The iliad has become a central point of greek culture. Muses are used as a narrative device. The poem is fixated on a sense of the past. Nostalgia that springs from the dark ages. The idea that the past was better may have come from home. They should be better than the humans. Homer is potentially dangerous because his version of the gods are fundamentally flawed like mortals, both physically and morally. The audience is intended to see certain moments as comical. The greeks genuinely believed in these gods. Gods are used for explanations for inexplicable events. The greek gods developed as a means to cope with a world the ancient.
