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Notes in no order

Michael wood ‘In search of the Trojan war’

·         City of troy – legend regarding Trojan war and horse

·         Fight for love

o   Prince of Troy – Paris – eloped Greek Goddess Queen Helen of Sparta ?? I think

·         Greeks followed – ships – revenge

·         10years fighting (not full years – seasons)

·         Homer – poet – lived ~700Bc – 500years following war

·         Asian minor

·         Story of Trojan – oral tradition – stories woven together – create narrative

·         Historical & legendary material – originates in oral traditions

o   Composed, sung, chanted – not written originally.

·         Loosely knit epics – ‘episodes’ can be stand alone

·         Stories told as entertainment

·         Repetitious stock phrases/descriptions - ~25,000 times for Iliad

·         Epic – narrative poems written in latin – middle ages

·         Classic poem – originates in Greece

·         Features a hero

·         Homer’s Iliad – covers all major questions – questions still asked today – our wars

·         Focuses 4days – last 10 years

·         240 deaths – individual descriptions – claims stating he must have seen it personally

·         Many observations and claims within story – ‘timelessly true’ – youtube – homer’s iliad

·         Josephus – talks of jesus – not religious – good for credibility

o   Evaluated homer

o   Way after war time

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- His poem was about 6000 words long
- It focuses on 4 main days
- He/she would have experienced action first hand

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Homeric question- who was Homer- debates identity of homer and authorship of Illiad and Odyssey.

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- Knew and told story verbally

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Was a bard
Affiliated with 7 cities
Spoke the epic cycle (Illiad and Odyssey
Story ended at Achilles being killed

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What do we know about him?
•Thought to have lived in the 8th century BC
•He was blind
•Tradition has it that he was born in Asia Minor

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- He died c. 701 BCE
- He was credited with the enduring epic tales of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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- His actual name/identity is unknown

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Was possibly a woman.
Believed to be blind
Repeated approximately 25,000 phrases in the Iliad

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Many different perspectives have been explored around troy. Makes it hard to decipher the truth from the myth. This creates some sort of speculation around whether Homer is reliable or not

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Epic poetry- loosely knit stories woven to form a narrative (epic cycle). These stories told for entertainment

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born in the 8th or early 7th century BC
Epics structured loosely meaning different episodes can be enjoyed as separate poems or songs.

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- Long, narrative, oral poetry
- Usually about heroic events
- Iliad and the Odyssey both epic poetry

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- Described the Trojan war
- Possibly blind
- Was a poet/bard
- Finished Iliad with death of Achilles

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He was born in Asia Minor.
many question about who he/she really is.

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- Greek epic poet Born ~8th Century
- credited with Iliad and Odyssey, Epic Poems on the Trojan war.
- themes include grief, love, hatred, war, loss, humanity etc.