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Was The Iliad and the Aeneid composed at or about the same time?
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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 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.
What is the Roman version of The Iliad?
Since the stories of The Iliad (the Trojan War) and The Odyssey (the travels of King Odysseus) were written by Homer, a Greek writer, there is no 'roman' version. Odysseus was a Greek hero, so the Romans presumably no interest in hearing about his exploits as such: in other words, they would be more interested in tales of ROMAN heroes.Another View:I Disagree with the above but not entirely.The correct answer to this question would be Virgil's "The Aeneid". Though the above answer is accurate in that there is no Roman Homer's The Illiad. Virgil's first six books of The Aeneid are Rome's attempt at not only revisionist history but their first attempt at the Greek tradition in epic poetic literature. So while it is true that Romans would be much more interested in hearing about Roman heroes they had none with the tradition set forth by the Greeks so Virgil in effect plagiarized the greatest work of literature at the time, arguably of all time, and created Roman heroes within the context of The Aeneid.Further View:Aeneid is not a version of the Iliad. It is a sequel to it which tries to portray Rome as being in the lineage of the heroes of a thousand years before. Iliad ws an early written version of the many version which had been sung by the itinerant bards for hundreds of years before cursive writing was invented and the story written down. We don't know if it was the best of these versions, just that it was popular at the time.The attempt to have a Roman story was late, in Augustus' time, and literature had moved on. Aficionados of this genre may swoon over the epics but later literature, prose, verse and theatre has not only matched but surpassed them in its content, style, art and relevance. Those early works should be given their due as outstanding in their time, but most people would regard later works as surpassing these fascinating relics of an age of early and primitive literature.There will be hot disagreement on this from the devotees of the classical epics, but this is a legitimate alternative view from the majority who are able to put literary works in their true place and perspective.
Why the Aeneid is among the great books?
The Aeneid is considered a great book because it is an epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who travels to Italy and establishes the foundations of Rome. The poem explores themes of destiny, warfare, and the complexities of human emotions. Its enduring influence and impact on Western literature and culture contribute to its reputation as a classic.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
When was BWV 1006 composed by Bach?
Wikipedia shows the manuscript of the first sonata (BWV 1001) is autographed from 1720. One could possibly assume that all the third partita (BWV 1006) was composed around the same time.
