Homer

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Homers Odyssey some contexts
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an epic of the eighth/seventh centuries BCE

• and a cascade of relationships between past and
  present

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relationship 8th/7th century BCE and a golden
age of heroes

• Trojan war and bronze age
• cultural memory and record

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relationship archaeology and this epic of a
lost past

• Schliemann discovering a legendary past
• fact and fiction, archaeology and legend

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the setting the Mediterranean in the bronze age
and after

• 13th century BCE and after

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what was happening in Homers time?

• and remember this epic is a mixture of past and
  present

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from household to state
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great empires in the east

• Egyptians,Hittites, Assyrians, Persians

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the city and civil society

• emerging from the eighth century BCE in the
  Mediterranean

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the old aristocracy anda new citizenry

• this is how the aristocracysaw themselves

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the citizen body

• hoplites fighting together

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land and economy

• a society whose wealth centered upon agriculture

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mobility

• aristocrats traveling
• mercenaries fighting abroad