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The Aeneid was written under the rule of Augustus during a time called the Pax Romana (Roman Peace) in about 29 BCE. The Iliad was written down by Homer around the 8th Century BCE, after it had been orally told for many many generations. Dates for the Trojan war (if it actually occurred) are estimated to between 1100 BCE and 700 BCE, so the story after having been told for possibly hundreds of years was probably very corrupted by the time Homer had a scribe write it down.
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Where did Iliad take place?
Homer is traditionally attributed with writing the Iliad. Homer was the person who wrote it but in those days, as many people didn't know how to read, cultured men would go around telling stories by singing and playing instruments. So it is said that many other people helped write the modern Iliad.
Did the Greeks and the Carthaginians intermingle?
According to the Aeneid Aeneas left Troy and came to Carthage, where he spent some time with Queen Dido. Whether this had consequences we do not know.
What does time mean in the Iliad?
In the Iliad, "time" refers to honor and respect, particularly in the context of warrior culture. It signifies a person's status and reputation earned through bravery and achievements in battle. The pursuit of time drives the actions of characters like Achilles, who seeks to preserve his honor even at great personal cost. Thus, time serves as both a motivating force and a measure of one's legacy in the epic.
What leads scholars to conclude that the Greek Gods of 2500bc developed writing by the time Homer was believed to have written The Iliad and the Odyssey?
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Who is Homer of Iliad and odessey a real person?
Was Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, a real person? Yes, we believe that there was such a person, a poet of prodigious invention, in an oral tradition before writing was invented, who originally composed these two great works, and perhaps some others. About his life -or hers!- nothing is known.Much of the Homeric literature, however, has parts that date from an impossibly later time than the rest - the Iliad mentions an Athenian fleet of warships, for example, but the Iliad was already old when Athens was still a rustic village, centuries from its later glory - leading some to believe that "Homer" never was any one single person, but simply generations of poets adding bits to old folk songs, according to ancient formula and current political conditions.And until the Western "discovery" of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, which is ten times the length of Homer, and whose tellers recite entirely from memory, many scholars doubted whether any one ancient author could have retained Homer's work well enough to compose it.Finally there is enough difference in style between the Iliad and the Odyssey to fuel a dispute about whether they were composed by the same person, as if an oral-tradition author could not have had more than one idea.
Why the Aeneid is among the great books?
The Aeneid was the Roman national epic, and one reason why the Aeneid is an important book in world history is simply because Roman civilization was one of the most important early civilisations (especially for Europe).Another reason for the Aeneid's importance is that it is the first modern epic poem. The Odyssey and the Iliad were written about mythical heroes, but they were also written during a semi-mythical period: Homer is writing about warriors who inhabit a world not very different from his own (or at least, this is how it would have seemed to the classical Greeks who relied on his poetry).The Homeric epics are stories of heroic derring-do written at the time (or relatively near to it): much as if we had an account of the Gunfight at the OK Corral actually written by Wyatt Earp.But the Aeneid is set in a time long, long ago, and far, far away (like a film about the Gunfight at the OK Corral made in 1996). The people who read the Aeneid knew that they were listening to a story, and a story told a long time after the events it describes. The Aeneid is fictional and literary in a way that the Odyssey and the Iliad are not.The distinction is handled in some detail by Brooks Otis in his book: Vergil, A study in Civilized Poetry.
Is Trojan Horse part of Iliad?
The main source of the story is Virgil's Iliad, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus
What time period were The Iliad and the Odyssey based in?
1183 b.C.
How do The Iliad and The Odyssey differ from each other?
The Iliad and the Odyssey cover two different time periods: The Iliad is about the siege of Troy during the Trojan War, and The Odyssey is the story of the soldiers journey home from Troy.
Is the Aeneid the Roman version of Homer?
The Aeneid is, and isn't, a Roman equivalent of Homer.Before the Aeneid the Roman national poem was probably Ennius' The Annals. Most of the Annals has not survived, but what we have of it makes it seem more like a Saga (a loosely structured poem glorifying warlike virtues) than a true epic (epics have a more structured storyline, and usually a more developed set of ethics).Vergil probably wanted Rome to have a proper national epic. Vergil's near contemporary Propertius wrote nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade ("I think we may be seeing the birth of something larger than the Iliad"). But at the same time Vergil realised that the Roman epic would need to be less realistic than Homer's poems are. Homer's poems were written at a time when war was still natural and accepted by the Greek city-states; to some extent Homer can get away with glorifying war. By Vergil's time war had become industrialised, and it was a nasty, murderous business (no matter how necessary it might sometimes have seemed).Homer could show the good side to war (though he shows the bad side just as clearly). Vergil could only show war as a sometimes inevitable evil.Vergil follows Homer to the extent that he makes the first half of the Aeneid a voyage (like the Odyssey) and the second half a landwar (like the Iliad). But unlike Homer - who wrote realistically for his time - Vergil chooses a tale from long ago and far away.To draw a contemporary parallel: Homer's Iliad was somewhat like a film about a recent war (say Jarhead), Vergil's Aeneid would be more like a historical war film (Beguiled perhaps).There are many points of similiarity between Vergil and Homer - but just as many differences.
Was The Epic of Gilgamesh composed at about the same time as the poems of Homer?
No. Gilgamesh was originally composed in the Sumerian times and passed through the Babylonian and Assyrian before being lost until recently. The estimate is around 2000 B.C. Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were written in the times of Ancient Greece. The estimate for them are in the 800-700 B.C. So the Epic of Gilgamesh is at least 1000 years older than Homer's epic poems.
How does Aeneas flee Troy?
In Homer's Iliad we are only told how he survived. He was rescued by Aphrodite and Apollo from a fight which nearly killed him. Poseidon (Neptune) rescued him a second time. Neither Homer nor Virgil's Aeneid tell us how he escaped. Virgil only says he was sailing westward in the Mediterranean and that he went to Carthage and Sicily before landing in Latium
What is an examplr of a solution composed of a gaseous solute and a gaseous solvent?
When you exhale and fart at the same time
How long did it take for homer to write lliad?
The time it took for Homer to write the Iliad is not certain since it was passed down orally before being transcribed. Estimates suggest it was composed over a period of several years and was not a single, continuous effort.
How long had the Trojan war been going by the time the Iliad begins?
It was the tenth year.
Did claude debussy invent any new styles of music?
Claude Debussy composed impressionist music, which was a new style of music with modern ideas. He composed impressionist music at the same time as Maurice Ravel.
In what time signature is the Moonlight Sonata composed?
The Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven is composed in 3/4 time signature.
