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Echoes of Ancient Times: Homer's Odyssey in Context

Delve into the world of Homer's Odyssey, an epic from the 8th/7th centuries BCE, exploring the intersection of past and present relationships, the Trojan War, and the cultural memory through archaeology and legends. Discover how this ancient tale weaves fact and fiction, set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age and beyond.

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Echoes of Ancient Times: Homer's Odyssey in Context

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  1. Homer’s Odyssey – some contexts

  2. an epic of the eighth/seventh centuries BCE • and a cascade of relationships between past and present

  3. relationship – 8th/7th century BCE and a golden age of heroes • Trojan war and bronze age • cultural memory and record

  4. relationship – archaeology and this epic of a lost past • Schliemann discovering a legendary past • fact and fiction, archaeology and legend

  5. the setting – the Mediterranean in the bronze age and after • 13th century BCE and after

  6. what was happening in Homer’s time? • … and remember this epic is a mixture of past and present

  7. from household to state

  8. great empires in the east • Egyptians,Hittites, Assyrians, Persians

  9. the city and civil society • emerging from the eighth century BCE in the Mediterranean

  10. the old aristocracy anda new citizenry • this is how the aristocracysaw themselves

  11. the citizen body • hoplites fighting together

  12. land and economy • a society whose wealth centered upon agriculture

  13. mobility • aristocrats traveling • mercenaries fighting abroad

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