Iliad
Iliad
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- Different name for the Greeks
- Achaecans, Danaae and Argives
- Anapestic
- unstressed unstressed stressed
- dimeter
- 2 feet
- tetrameter
- 4 feet
- Agamemnon and Achilles
- belong to the Myceaean age
- How old was the iliad before homer got them
- at least 400 years old
- pentameter
- 5 feet
- who does homer address at the beginning of the story
- muse
- Trochaic
- stressed unstressed
- epic was composed
- during the performance
- Chios
- the island where Homer was born (off the coast of Turkey)
- who gets kidnapped
- Chryseis and Briseis
- bard
- a person who tells stories for a living
- What did the Greeks change to the Phonecian alpphabet?
- The addition of vowels
- setting
- The ninth year of the Trojan war
- iambic
- unstressed stressed
- Spondaic
- stressed stressed stressed
- The story focuses on
- the wrath of Achilles
- Glaucus and Diomedes
- they trade their armor
- Dactylic
- stressed unstressed unstressed
- oral compisition
- stories passed down through oral tradition (the iliad was done like this)
- trimeter
- 3 feet
- Pyrrhic
- untstressed unstressed unstressed
- Homer Virgil Dante Shakespeare Milton Joyce
- Who was inspired by Homer
- Homer did not
- write his epics
- the Archaic Age
- 800-490 B.C.
- Jove
- aka zeus
- When was the Dark Age
- 1500-800 B.C.
- Homer's job
- he was a professional bard
- hexameter
- 6 feet
- heptameter
- 7 feet
- When was the iliad composed
- 8th century B.C.
- Gets traded for Chryseis
- Briseis
- Achilles
- the main character
- the god that brings a plauge upon the Greeks
- Apollo
- Myceaean age
- 1600-1500 B.C.
- monometer
- 1 foot
- What happened during the Archaic Age
- city states, government, citizenship, coinage, trade became popular, ruled by a tyrant
- the dark age
- What does homer bring an end to?
- What happened signigicat things happened during the dark age?
- Fires,The Dorian invasion, a new dialect of greek, discovery of iron, apotion of the Phonecian alphabet
- Calchas
- a soothsayer who says that the plauge is going to happen and why