Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase
Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 14 July 2015 Chapter 10 Outline Mediterranean Society: Greek Phase Homer composed poems in ancient Greece, Iliad/Odyssey Scholars know that bards recited poems before Homer in 750 BC Homer was name for anon. Scribes who committed Iliad/Odyssey to writing Epics attributed to him influenced classic Greek thought/lit. Iliad offered Greek perspective on campaign waged by Greek warriors against city Troy in Anatolia during 12th BC Odyssey recounted exp's. Of Greek hero Odysseus traveling home after Trojan War 2 works testified to normality of travel, comm., interaction in Mediterranean basin during 2nd/1st millennia BC; portrayed Greeks as expert seamen