The Iliad
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Authorship is Homer.
Bard - singer
Business of many stories
Homer organized many stories for his own use
Homer is very talented, is also known as an illiterate
Homer does not take sides of any gods or character
Theories - one author for the Iliad and Odessey
Materials of Iliad historical
Materials of Odessey creative
Numerous people - Tradition of symmetrical nature of Greek Art (epics were songs, reframes repeated over again), makes group authorship possible
Nodding Homer - areas of mistakes - Blind - cover up for illiteracy - use of scribe
Does not take sides - exalts human nature, not individual warriors - Detached from his work
The Iliad is an:
Epic poem (epics are poems meant to be sung) Epic is Genre -
Culmination of an oral tradition
Composed in Greek, to be sung
Written down c. 750 B.C about events 600 yrs prior
Attributed to an author named Homer
Epic - An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in a high style (with ennobled diction(more complicated world), for example). It may be written in hexameter verse,
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