Classics 130: Trojan War - Homer and the epic tradition
Bronze Age (3000-1100 BC)
Iron Age (1100-700 BC)
Homer (8th c. BC)
Chios
Iliad
Odyssey
Peisistratos
Kypria
Aithiopis
Ilioupersis
Nostoi - the returns
rhapsode
scholia
dactylic hexameter (-uu -uu -uu -uu -uu --)
epithets
formulaic phrases
xenia
kleos
timé
Ionian
Arcado-Cypriot
Iolkos, Thebes, Orchomenos, Athens, Mycenae, Tiryns, Sparta,
Pylos, Ithaca
Achilles - Thetis and Peleus
Agamemnon - Clytemnestra - Iphigeneia - Orestes - Electra
Menelaos - Helen - Hermione
Odysseus - Penelope - Telemachos
Ajax
Nestor
Demodocus
Calydonian Boar Hunt - Aitolians
Jason and the Aronauts
Cadmus of Thebes
Minyas
Patroklos
Diomedes
Aeneas