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The beauty of the Iliad – the genius and craft of it – is that whilst the action is concentrated in only one episode of the conflict - two months of action during the legendary 10 years - Homer is able to supply all the whys and wherefores and what went before by alluding to them without interrupting the tightening of tension in the main narrative.
The beauty of the Iliad – the genius and craft of it – is that whilst the action is concentrated in only one episode of the conflict - two months of action during the legendary 10 years - Homer is able to supply all the whys and wherefores and what went before by alluding to them without interrupting the tightening of tension in the main narrative.
He does the same thing in the Odyssey but by different means. The time from the fall of Troy to his homecoming and the recognition of him by his wife, Penelope (the point where many believe Homer’s original work ends) is ten years; yet the immediate narrative describes events during a time span of only about forty days. The seeming irrelevance to the main narrative of his son Telemachus’ fruitless search for his father is a way of connecting the return to the overall legend of Troy and its story.
He does the same thing in the Odyssey but by different means. The time from the fall of Troy to his homecoming and the recognition of him by his wife, Penelope (the point where many believe Homer's original work ends) is ten years; yet the immediate narrative describes events during a time span of only about forty days. The seeming irrelevance to the main narrative of his son Telemachus’ fruitless search for his father is a way of connecting the return to the overall legend of Troy and its story.
The society described by Homer is not classical Greece or even his own time (which was a period when the Greek world was awakening from an illiterate dark age.) He was writing of a period what we these days call the [[Mycenaean]] after its major centre Mycenae, whose king, Agamemnon, is leader of the Greek forces. The traditional date for the fall of Troy is in the 1180s or 1194 B.C.
The society described by Homer is not classical Greece or even his own time (which was a period when the Greek world was awakening from an illiterate dark age.) He was writing of a period what we these days call the [[Mycenaean]] after its major centre Mycenae, whose king, Agamemnon, is leader of the Greek forces. The traditional date for the fall of Troy is in the 1180s or 1194 B.C.