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Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
Conversely, Lachmann's 1847 Betrachtungen über Homers Ilias ("Studies on Homer's Iliad") argued that the Iliad was a compilation of 18 independent folk-lays, rather as the Finnish Kalevala actually was, compiled in the 1820s and 1830s by Lönnrot: so, he argued, Iliad book 1 consists of a lay on Achilleus' anger (lines 1-347), and two ...
The Iliad of Homer, by Alexander Pope, at Project Gutenberg; The Iliad of Homer, by William Cowper, at Project Gutenberg; The Iliad of Homer, by Theodore Alois Buckley, at Project Gutenberg; The Iliad of Homer, by Edward, Earl of Derby, at Project Gutenberg; The Iliad of Homer, by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers, at Project Gutenberg
Achilles bandages the arm of Patroclus. The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is a key element of the stories associated with the Trojan War.In the Iliad, Homer describes a deep and meaningful relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, where Achilles is tender toward Patroclus, but callous and arrogant toward others.
Agamemnon takes her from Achilles in Book 1 and Achilles withdraws from battle as a result. Chryseis , Chryses ’ daughter, taken as a war prize by Agamemnon. Clymene , servant of Helen along with her mother Aethra.
The Homeric Question concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of Homer, the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (especially concerning the Iliad). The subject has its roots in classical antiquity and the scholarship of the Hellenistic period , but has flourished among Homeric scholars of the 19th, 20th ...
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
In the Iliad, Achilles led the assault on Lyrnessus during the Trojan War, and slew several of the men in her family. [8] She was subsequently given to Achilles as a war prize. In the Mycenaean Greek society described in the Iliad , captive women like Briseis were slaves and could be traded amongst the warriors.