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| Homer’s Odyssey – some contexts |
| an epic of the eighth/seventh centuries BCE |
| relationship – 8th/7th century BCE and a golden age of heroes |
| relationship – archaeology and this epic of a lost past |
| the setting – the Mediterranean in the bronze age and after |
| what was happening in Homer’s time? |
| from household to state |
| great empires in the east |
| the city and civil society |
| the old aristocracy
and a new citizenry |
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| the citizen body |
| land and economy |
| mobility |