Chapter 6 - Homer

Question 1

Homeric Question

Answer 1

name means “one who may not see” - who is/were homer?

Question 2

Fredrich August Wolf

Answer 2

1795 - wrote into to HOmer - first to systematically answer Homeric Q
-used Jew bible, compared to Homeric poems, found 12 Greek dialects - concluded Homer was written by at least 2 people.

Question 3

rhapsode

Answer 3

would sing official Homer with a special staff

Pisratis (510 BC) declared the official texts of Ilyad and Odyssey

Question 4

Millman Perry

Answer 4

AMERICAN scholar in early 20th century before ww2, after ww1; looked @ dactylic hexameter; proved Guslari songs; died 1935

Question 5

dactylic hexameter

Answer 5

basic foot = dactylic, hexameter = 6 ft; dactylic = long short short “staw-ber-ry”; Homeric dialect is made up to fit this

Question 6

Guslari

Answer 6

poet singers in Yugoslavia - now Serbia, were illiterate; songs all had basic plot but new song each time; had accompanists - guslai;
-Homeric poems today are official text from Pisratis rulers

Question 7

Aoidoi

Answer 7

if you were talented you got an apprenticeship, they sent you off into the world

Question 8

Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 8

dug shit up on Homeric sites

Question 9

shame culture

Answer 9

if you don’t meet the standard (usually high) you’re guilted into being better. Many times death is better than shame - Greeks in the Ilyad

Question 10

Time

Answer 10

“honor” - thing you need to have a certain amount of or you’re shamed and should die

Question 11

geras

Answer 11

“reward” - what you get to gain to get more time

Question 12

calypso

Answer 12

was a nymph; last person odysseus was with before he left for home
-gave him the proposition that he can go home to his wife or be her immortal husband

Question 13

Phaeacia

Answer 13

island; fantasy world; where odysseus’ stores take place, 1/3 of the Odyssey

Question 14

Lotus eaters

Answer 14

like meth heads - eat weird fruit, forget everything else

Question 15

cyclops

Answer 15

“circle face” 1 eyed giant, eats odysseus men.
-they got him drunk and said “I’m nobody”, blind him and then when Cyclops’ friend come to help he said “ nobody did this to me” and escape.

Question 16

Circe

Answer 16

Turns odysses men into pigs; Odysseus threatens to attack her, so she offers him to bed, frees his men and stays with her for a year

Question 17

Sirens

Answer 17

3 singing women, entrance sailors, causing them to crash their ships
-Odysseus had his men cover their ears, tie him down and sail over so he could see them

Question 18

xenia

Answer 18

guest friendship, very welcoming to strangers, drink with them
-Odyssey is about how important xenia is and what happens if you don’t follow it