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The "Homeric Question"
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Name: Grunfeld N. Student number: 0442607 Course: Introduction to antiquity (Hum 114) Lecturer: Dr. A.W.H. Evers The "Homeric Question" When one thinks of the ancient Greece many will think of the Iliad and Odyssey, epics seen as the greatest of Western civilization. Everyone knows of the stories about war, the Trojan horse, Agamemnon, the gods etcetera. But how did these stories survive generations long? And how did these epics came into being in the first place? The fact that the Iliad and the Odyssey are very much part of an oral tradition has been a determining factor in the history of their composition. If one wants to interpret their contents it is something that should be taken into account. In this essay I would like to focus on the Iliad. 'My main question is what can, and what cannot, be learned of the Greek world c.700 BC from this monumental poem' (Greece in the making, 1200-479...
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