Homer and the Epic. Oral Tradition  Before written language, knowledge passed down orally through generations  Artists with a gift & memory for storytelling.

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Homer and the Epic

Oral Tradition  Before written language, knowledge passed down orally through generations  Artists with a gift & memory for storytelling  Musical accompaniment  Greatest storyteller: Homer Homer with Lyre Lyre

Homer  2,700 years ago, 700 BCE  Hear literature instead of reading it  Developing Greek alphabet  Like most people of this time, he probably could not read or write  Legend is that he was blind  Created 2 of the earliest epic poems –Iliad- set during the Trojan War –The Odyssey- Odysseus’s trip home after war

Subjects & Sources  Events from history, legends, myths, & folk tales  Homer added imagination, insight into human condition, & experience in storytelling Poseidon Polyphemus (Cyclopes) Warfare

Subjects & Sources  Heroes won & lost, but tale always uplifted the human spirit  Audiences believed stories The Trojan War Polyphemus (Cyclopes)

How Composed  Like a musician –To a steady rhythm –Alternating long and short syllables –Recycle long passages, routine actions (like a chorus), audience looked forward to –Verbal formulas  “gray-eyed Athena”- epithets  “fingertips of rose”- epithets  Somewhat different every time Lyre