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Homer: The Iliad (Oral tradition to classical text, c. 8th–4th century BCE)

Homer: The Iliad (Oral tradition to classical text, c. 8th–4th century BCE)

  1. Oral epic tradition takes shape in Greece

    Labels: Oral tradition, Singer-poets

  2. Probable period of the Iliad’s composition

    Labels: Iliad composition, Archaic Greece

  3. Greek alphabet supports wider text recording

    Labels: Greek alphabet, Text transmission

  4. Rhapsodes professionalize public epic recitation

    Labels: Rhapsodes, Public performance

  5. Panathenaic festival elevates Homer at Athens

    Labels: Panathenaic festival, Athens

  6. Plato’s Ion depicts rhapsodes as Homer specialists

    Labels: Plato, Ion

  7. Fourth-century tradition credits Hipparchus with ordering recitations

    Labels: Hipparchus, Panathenaia rule

  8. Library of Alexandria fosters systematic textual scholarship

    Labels: Library of, Hellenistic scholarship

  9. Aristophanes of Byzantium edits Homeric texts

    Labels: Aristophanes of, Alexandrian scholar

  10. Aristarchus produces influential Iliad edition

    Labels: Aristarchus, Critical edition

  11. Scholia tradition preserves ancient Iliad commentary

    Labels: Scholia, Commentary tradition

  12. Venetus A preserves a complete Iliad with scholia

    Labels: Venetus A, Manuscript