Jillian Kurzmann's Blog 1/22/18

Jillian Kurzmann
1/22/18
Honors Western Civilization

Today in class, we caught the absent kids up on notes. We also learned about ancient Greek culture.

  • Around 1200 BCE, the mysterious "sea people" began to invade Mycenae, and burnt palace after palace.
  • After, the Dorians moved into this war-torn region, dominating from 1150-750 BCE.
  • Dorians were far less advanced.
  • Their trade based economy collapsed.
  • Writing disappeared for 400 years.
  • Talk about a culture decline.
  • Greek oral tradition-stories passed on by word of mouth.
  • Homer lived at the end of these "Greek Dark Ages".
  • He composed stories (epics) of the Trojan War c.750-700 BCE.
  • The Iliad- probably on of the conquests of the Mycenaeans (the Trojan War).
  • The Odyssey- Odysseus attempts to return home after the Trojan War being thwarted by the angry god of the sea, Poseidon.
  • The Odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter.
  • The Homeric question- Homer may have been a mythical creation himself. 
  • He was a blind wandering minstrel; a heroic figure.
  • The Iliad and Odyssey maybe the culmination of many generations of storytelling. 
  • Or maybe Homer actually existed and he was just really awesome. 


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