when was the iliad written and what was the political climate like then?
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2007-03-09 08:23:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Iliad (Ancient Greek Ἰλιάς, Ilias) is one of two ancient Greek epic poems written by Homer, (the other one is Odyssey).
The epics are the oldest literature in the Greek language.
In general scholars dated the Iliad and the Odyssey to the 8th century BC. (there are though some who proposed an early dating and a link between the writing of the Iliad and the invention of the Greek alphabet.
Somewhere between 700BC-800BC is the most probable dating)
The poems were written just after the end of the Dark age of Greece (1200BC-800BC). It was a time when the Greek states started to recover and it was the dawn of archaic Greece.
(incredible and unhistorical answer by "Gone m"!!!)
2007-03-11 09:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by ragzeus 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
It was written aproximately 700BC by Homer. (Historians now perfer the 700-600BC date. Greece was in a neutral area. It's in the 400's when things truely heat up with a massive Persian invasion of 2 million soldiers. The Iliad and the Odessy were all campfire stories passed on from generation to generation. Finally Homer, who was blind, put the story into written words. It was tradition for travelers to tell such stories of glory, honor, bravery, divine powers, and other such topics. Homer was clearly a big fan of these campfire stories.
2007-03-09 15:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The time is really vague but around 750 BC, during the Bronze age, the political climate should be Incorporated in the text, as most writings hit at.
2007-03-09 08:29:55 · answer #3 · answered by Jaroo 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Written around 800 B.C. Greece was coming out of the dark ages. Read Richard Cantor's "Antiquity." Ave.
2007-03-09 08:27:07 · answer #4 · answered by Wang Hung 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Somewhere between 1200 & 800BC depending on which historian you listen too.
Without knowing the exact date it's impossible to know the political climatem but most likely revolved around dozens of city-states.
2007-03-09 08:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Around 750 B.C. but cannot refer to "political climate" as if we were referring to USA-Iraq relations, for example!
2007-03-09 08:35:54 · answer #6 · answered by Angel G 1 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Iliad or The Battle for Troy is not a part of a "Greek" history. The Troyans were people with Bryggian and Peonian origin. The Minoans were not Hellens - Hellens ("Greeks") came much later. In the Bronze age there were not "Greeks" on the Balkans.
2007-03-09 20:30:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 8⤋
Long time ago. Look it up for yourself. Read it in college.
2007-03-09 08:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by dtwladyhawk 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋