CLA237H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Plat, Uch, Hexameter
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Source for knowing what greeks were thinking in the 8th century bc. No primary sources for homer"s life, for where he lived or when. Dactylic hexameter in homer"s writing noticed by parry. Homer"s poems are oldest surviving examples of western literature. There is little that cant be anticipated in earlier literatures in the near east, except the transcendence of plot. In near eastern literature, events are strung together one after the other as beads on a string. Homer first poet who worked with a ceogzniably modern plot.