Lilliade (french Edition) [Paperback]

Homer (Greek Homeros, hostage or one who is obliged to follow is deemed to be a bard (poet) in the late eighth century BC. It was simply called the Poet by the Ancients. The first two works of Western literature are the Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to him. It is still difficult today to establish with certainty whether Homer was a historical person or a constructed identity, and if it is the author of two famous epics that are at the foundation of Western literature. However several Ionian cities (Chios, Smyrna, Colophon or Cumae) disputed the origin of the bard and tradition individualisait repeating that Homer was blind. Place of Homer in Greek literature is quite major as alone represents the epic genre in this period: the Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed him from the sixth century BC. BC, as well as two comic poems, the Batrachomyomachia (literally battle of frogs and rats ) and the Margites, and the poems of the Homeric Hymns. Homeric language is an archaic language already in the eighth century BC. BC and even more when setting the text in the sixth century BC. BC: it is associated with the use of dactylic hexameter. LIliade (en grec ancien Ili?s, en grec moderne Ili?da) est une ?pop?e de la Gr?ce antique attribu?e ? l'a?de Hom?re. Ce nom provient de la p?riphrase ??le po?me d'Ilion?? h? Ili?s po??sis), Ilion ?lion) ?tant l'autre nom de la ville de Troie. LIliade est compos?e de quinze mille trois cent trente-sept hexam?tres dactyliques et, depuis l'?poque hell?nistique, divis?e en vingt-quatre chants. Le texte a probablement ?t? compos? entre 850 et 750 av.?J.-C. (dates d?j? mentionn?es par H?rodote), soit quatre si?cles apr?s la p?riode ? laquelle les historiens font correspondre la guerre mythique quil relate. Il n'a ?t? fix? par ?crit que sous Pisistrate, au VIe?si?cle av.?J.-C. Le th?me de l'?pop?e est la guerre de Troie dans laquelle s'affrontent les Ach?ens venus de toute la Gr?ce et les Troyens et leurs alli?s, chaque camp ?tal3½