![]() (Mycenean age = 1600-1200, Fall of Troy = about 1220, destructionof Mycene = about 1150 Dark Ages 1200-800) poet writing about the Mycenean Age,about 1200 B.C. Legends: Did the Greeks believe in the historicityof their heroes? (Yes!) Were they right? (Well, thereon hangs a tale.Let's begin with the question of the Trojan War).Similes (Paris & the stallion, excerpts p.212, lines 601ff.).Poetry: the music of the words (He obeyed the order,/ turning, trailing away in silence down the shore / where the roaringbattle lines of breakers crash and drag, -excerpts, p.Command of rhetoric (Achilles oath, excerpts p.85).Vivid, transporting description (battle description,excerpts p.Characterization (Zeus & Hera, excerpts pp.95-98 Thersites, excerpts pp. ![]() Lots of dialogue and action: crafted for performance.Structure of tale: begins in medias res:in the middle of the action, rather than at the logical beginning of thetale.First Greek poet within this tradition to survivein writing. ![]()
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