The Iliad

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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