‘Troy is thought to correspond to the site of Hissarlik in modern-day Turkey – a town which, as modern archaeologists have discovered, met a violent end at roughly the time in question (c.1220 BCE).’ – Ideas of Authority (A105) P. The Trojan War lasted for ten years, which the Greeks won after destroying the city of Troy. The generally believed date for Troy’s destruction is 1184 BCE. The ‘Iliad’ is set in the Trojan War. It is generally believed that the ‘Iliad’ was written several hundred years after the war. While Homer isn’t the first western poet, his is the oldest poem to survive. ‘Which in turn has consequences for how we talk about them: Homer is a ‘poet’ or ‘author’, not a ‘writer’ and students of Homer talk of the Iliad and Odyssey as having been ‘composed’, not ‘written’.’ - Ideas of Authority (A105) P. It is most likely that Ancient Greek poems were composed without writing, likely a product of the oral composition. This is largely because the poems date from a period in Greek history about which we know relatively little and from which few written records survive” - Ideas of Authority (A105) P. “Despite many later traditions concerning who ‘Homer’ was, very little is known about the author – including, as a matter of fact, whether the composition of the poems can really be attributed to one individual. The age also adds to the authority of the text. The age gives it a unique place in the western canon of literature. The ‘Iliad’ is widely believed to be the earliest surviving work of European literature.
The ‘Iliad’ was composed towards the end of the eighth century BCE (predicted to be c.720-700 BCE, or maybe slightly later).
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