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Jacoby argued that Herodotus had started out in the same tradition as his predecessor, Hecataeus of Miletus (born c. 560/550 BCE), who wrote works (now lost) entitled Genealogies, which sought to bring order to the various and at times conflicting Greek genealogies, and Circuit of the Earth, in which Hecataeus described the coastal areas of the ...
The Iliad (/ ˈɪliəd / ⓘ; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás, [iː.li.ás]; lit. '[a poem] about Ilion (Troy) ') is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences.
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The Trojan War and its aftermath occurred in the late Bronze Age, beginningaround 1550 BCE. This date aligns with the opulent burial sites discovered byHeinrich Schliemann in Grave Circle A at Mycenae in 1873. Consequently, thisperiod is also known as the Mycenaean era. It was a time of relative stability,though not devoid of conflicts, wars, and r...
For reasons not fully understood, this civilization began to decline around1220 BCE, marked by the mysterious destruction and abandonment of Pylos. Thisevent initiated a period of decline lasting until about 1050 BCE, when theMycenaean civilization completely disappeared. Whatever the reasons for its collapse, the end of the Mycenaean civilizationu...
Starting around the eleventh century BCE, the Greeks began using ironinstead of bronze, cremating their dead, and establishing colonies along thewest coast of what is now Turkey. By Homer’s time, the mid-eighth century BCE,these changes were well-established, and conditions were improving. Writing was being rediscovered with a new alphabet borrowed...
In ancient Greek song culture, the tale or story of the Iliad was felt to be not only real but also true. As we will see in later hours, the Homeric Iliad was felt to convey the ultimate truth-values of the ancient Greek song culture.
In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities by virtue of being descended from an immortal god. Despite their mortality, heroes, like the gods, were objects of cult worship.
CONTINUITY AND TRADITION: THE PERSISTENCE OF GREEK VALUES* By PETER WALCOT I Background I believe that studies by social anthropologists working in mainly rural communities located in present-day Greece may help to deepen our understanding of the Greeks of antiquity, and this is a belief that I have held for more than twenty years.'
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Given the varied representations of Herakles in the archaic and classical Greek popular imagination, we can confidently posit that Herakles was already a hero of some pedigree prior to the formation of our Homeric epics, and that he enjoyed a well-known epic tradition.
