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Mythic age, the age of Hemitheoi (half gods); the supposed age of homers heroes
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| Question,Milman Parry, Albert Lord, gulsari |
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| A singer who performs the epic in front of live audience, such that no two perfomances are identical |
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| Dactylic Hexameter, the meter of Homerica poetry, the unit meaning enjambment |
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The singer or recriter who recited the Homeric songs from memory befor a live audience .
Two rhapsodic performances are almost identical |
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The idea that all scatterd Greeks shared a common cultural identity
Marks Pan-Hellenism:
establishment of the Olympic Games |
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A religious festival in Athens from 6th century BC-528 BCE
Rhapsodes sang Homer in Competion at this festival |
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| Glory, fame that men win in the frield of battle in contest with other men; a Heroic poet is master of kleos |
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| The opposite of kleos, meaning homecoming. A "real" hero does not come home |
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| essentially a song about kleos. The iliad is about Achilles' |
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| Display of valor and warcraft in battelfield: arming of the hero; hero turns the tide of war around him;he is wounded, but still goes on to kill an important enemy and is often killed; a battle for the body ensues. |
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| The best Achaians: the mail theme of the epic for some |
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| Contests in athletics, women often prizes. Helen was won by menelaos through aethloi. |
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| 1.Hektor 2.Paris 3.Priam 4.Hekabe 5.Glaukos |
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| 1. Apollo 2. Zeus 3. Ares 4. Poseidon 5. Iris |
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Son of Peleus
Most powerful warrior in The Iliad; war prize was Briseis |
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| A fine warrior, very clever he helps mediate between Achilles and agamemnon |
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| Youngest of Achaian commanders wounded two gods Aphrodite and Ares |
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| Really tall he wounds Hector twice by hitting him with boulders |
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| Son of Oileus; usually fights alongside Great Ajax, known for being small yet quick |
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| King of Pylos the oldest Achain commander he has great wisdom |
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| King of Sparta younger brother of Agamemnon; abduction of his wife sparks the Trojan war |
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| Achilles' father and grandson of zeus |
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| Old warrior that helped raise Achilles |
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| The son of king Priam and Queen of Hecuba, mirrors Achilles devoted to his wife and kids |
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| Queen of troy and mother hector |
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| King of Troy father of 50 Trojan warriors |
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| Son the Hecuba and Priam he started the war by taking Helen |
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| most beautiful in all the land |
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| Trojan nobleman, so of Aphro |
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