The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

sophisticated in craftsmanship and design. The techniques of engraving, enchasing and embossing were well developed and so was t ...

The Dark Age Soon after the possible date for the sack of Troy came the collapse of the mainland centres of Mycenaean civilizati ...

10 THE GREEKS FIGURE 8 Rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head, Archaeological Museum, Athens Source:©R. Sheridan/Art & Archite ...

Greeks themselves talk of Dorians invading from the north but archaeologists have not found convincing evidence of a mass takeov ...

buried their dead, while in Homer the dead are cremated. Experts on warfare note that in the fighting described in Iliad13, 131– ...

EARLY GREECE: HOMER AND HESIOD 13 FIGURE 10 Mycenaean boar’s tusk helmet Source:Courtesy of Richard Stoneman ...

to the view that Ionic bards took over and adapted to new circumstances and a new audience material that they had inherited from ...

The special status of Homer in the Greek world is something attested to in early Greek literary sources, which record the existe ...

Unless great acts superior merit prove, And vindicate the bount’ous powers above. ‘Tis ours, the dignity they give, to grace; Th ...

long and undistinguished life if he returned home or eternal fame if he remained at Troy (9, 410–416). Thetis herself later tell ...

that he is blind to all other truths, so that this purity of motive proves the ruin not only of many others but of himself too. ...

‘Dog’, he replied, ‘urge not my ruth by parents, soul nor knees. I would to God that any rage would let me eat thee raw, Sliced ...

Priam is impatient to see Hector. But Achilles collects himself, and he urges Priam to share a meal. The taking of food symboliz ...

EARLY GREECE: HOMER AND HESIOD 21 ninth year of the siege of Troy selecting only those particulars that relate to his central th ...

polymechanos,the man of much contrivance and many devices, and of course polytlas, much suffering and much enduring. He is a man ...

Troy Dodona PhthiaDelphi Argos MycenaeTiryns Pherae Sparta Pylos Geraistus Knossos Smyrna Mt Ossa Mt Olympus Mt Pelion Mt Cyllen ...

This is an idealized and romantic setting, well suited to serve as the backdrop for Odysseus’s account of his fabulous adventure ...

questions him about Odysseus. Their long conversation (which is interrupted by the recognition scene involving his old nurse Eur ...

Homeric ideals: civilized social living The end of the Odyssey restores the conditions in which civilized living is again possib ...

Once there, he is entertained with food, drink, dancing and with the songs of the minstrel. He is then invited to compete in the ...