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| Homer’s Odyssey – some contexts |
| an epic of the eighth/seventh centuries BCE |
| and a cascade of relationships between past and present |
| relationship – 8th/7th century BCE and a golden age of heroes |
| Trojan war and bronze age | |
| cultural memory and record |
| relationship – archaeology and this epic of a lost past |
| Schliemann discovering a legendary past | |
| fact and fiction, archaeology and legend |
| the setting – the Mediterranean in the bronze age and after |
| 13th century BCE and after |
| what was happening in Homer’s time? |
| … and remember this epic is a mixture of past and present |
| from household to state |
| great empires in the east |
| Egyptians,Hittites, Assyrians, Persians |
| the city and civil society |
| emerging from the eighth century BCE in the Mediterranean |
| the old aristocracy
and a new citizenry |
| this is how the aristocracy saw themselves |
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| the citizen body |
| hoplites fighting together |
| land and economy |
| a society whose wealth centered upon agriculture |
| mobility |
| aristocrats traveling | |
| mercenaries fighting abroad |