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Hace 4 días · Modern military volunteers donned replicas of ancient Greek armour and engaged in exercises inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Iliad.The demonstration shows how elite Bronze Age warriors could ...
Hace 2 días · 2021.08.30 | By Gregory Nagy §0. In the cover illustration for this essay, a painter is picturing Homer at a moment of performance. Or, I could even say that we see Homer here in—not just at—a moment of performance. Homer sings, accompanying himself on his lyre. Viewing him and listening to him most attentively, in the imagination of our painter, are poets from Homer’s future ...
Hace 4 días · The Bronze Age Mycenaeans, renowned for their impressive architecture and legendary roles in Homeric epics, have long been a subject of study. One of their most notable technological achievements, the Dendra armor, has recently been the focus of an extensive study to determine its practicality and effectiveness in battle.
Hace 4 días · One of the oldest complete suits of European armour was discovered in 1960 near the village of Dendra, in Southern Greece, but it remained unknown whether this armour was suitable for extended use in battle or was purely ceremonial. This had limited our understanding of the ancient Greek–Late Bronze Age–warfare and its consequences that have underpinned the social transformations of ...
Hace 3 días · Works attributed to Homer Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name 'Homer'. In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic ...
Hace 4 días · Ancient 3,500-year-old Mycenaean armor tested in epic combat simulation shows Homer’s Iliad wasn’t just a fantasy story after all. This armor wasn't just for show.
Hace 3 días · Upon reflection, I realized that Nelson's assertion may in fact be true, especially when she explains that she does not seek anything new to say about the Homeric correspondences (in fact, she rightly calls them "Joyce's superficial play with Homer"—2), but pursues different ends: "This book, then, compares two works concerned with similar themes" (3).
