History of the Iliad and the Trojan War
The Iliad covers not the entire Trojan War, but begins in the midst of events in the final year of battle, after nine years of siege, and only spans 52 days. By the time The Iliad was written down in the eighth century BCE by the epic poet Homer, whom we know not a lot about other than the fact that he lived around the time of 750 BCE, and it would have already been a familiar tale to the Greeks since the tale was part of a long and rich oral history, meaning it was spoken aloud and accompanied by music. Its history in oral tradition is clear through the use and repetition of epithets like swift-footed Achilles and clever Odysseus, introductory phrases and fighting descriptions common to oral histories.
It seems that Homer wasn’t concerned with the catalyst for the Trojan War, nor the final days and the victory of the Achaeans which the audience would have already been familiar with, but the universal truths of human mortality, war, honour and betrayal, pain and pathos, love and hatred and how the lives of the characters in the story are buffeted by the winds of fate. The Iliad and the Odyssey may have once been a part of what is known as the Epic Cycle, which was a bunch of different stories that covered the period from the creation of the universe, or cosmogony, to the Trojan War and Odysseus’ long voyage home.
The Trojan War was a ten-year-long conflict fought between a coalition of Greeks known as the Achaeans, which is how Homer called the Mycenaean Greeks, against the Trojans who lived in the city of Troy and it was sparked by Paris (a Trojan prince), abducting Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. The Iliad begins by invoking the muse to tell the story of the rage of Achilles, and that is pretty much what the entire Iliad is about.
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0:00 Introduction
1:00 What is the Iliad?
4:26 Lead up to the Trojan War
8:10 Summary of The Iliad
14:43 After the End of the Iliad
16:06 Did the Trojan War Actually Happen?
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Why do you think the Trojan War is still such a fascinating story, over three thousand years after it occurred?
@HistoryfortheAges
2 жыл бұрын
Like many Greek stories they deal with elements that are part of our core human nature. In my class I discuss the play Antigone, at it's core it deals with Hubris, which is still something we deal with today. So even though these works are 1000's of years old they still resonate with folks today.
@ivanjuarez7731
Жыл бұрын
One fact about these many stories and folklore, they all contain an essence of truth.
The Iliad is a brilliant work of literature and that alone would make the events within it famous.
Thank you for uploading these videos because I hope to share them with my students this incoming school year as part of our Greek mythology class.
@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! We hope your students enjoy them. 😊
Kelly, I just wanted to tell you that me finding your channel is a weird and amazing coincidence. I’m currently studying philosophy in the university of Guadalajara. I’d been trying to read the Iliad for a while but I hadn’t found any good and clear introduction to the first 9 years. Today I saw the book on my bookshelf and I thought to give it a try once more. I immediately went to youtube for a good introduction and found your channel. At the end I realized that you uploaded the video today! That’s AMAZINGGGGGG! I really liked it and it helped me big time on my reading, everything is much clearer now. Thank you very much for your hard work! It really is interesting.
@AssaultSpeed
2 жыл бұрын
Try Edith Hamiltons book Mythology if you want more Greek mythology, including the Iliad.
@CountNosaj
2 жыл бұрын
If I had a drachma for every time I experienced something like that, I'd be a millionaire. There's much more to this world than meets the eye!
Thanks for putting this together. Actually got to the end of the Iliad a few years ago and was so sad that it didn’t finish the war!
@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
Жыл бұрын
Our pleasure. Yeah, we think it ends in a bit of a weird spot as well. Thanks for watching! 🙂
My father's Village is where place of Trojan War area. This Village located area is name of as mythological Agonya in Türkiye. According to mythological, Ida Mountain and now we call Kaz Mountain.and also Paris was a shepherd here. It is a really fantastik area.
Great concise explanation.
@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
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The answer: because Homer wrote about it. The answer is obvious, but we'd like to think there must be a historical reason. But we know the story of Helen and the Wooden Horse for the same reason we know Macbeth. Not becasue Macbeth was so singular a King or the Trojan War so a remarkable point in history (history is replete within endless war begun becasue the human ego thinks so little of human life) The story is so fascinating beause Homer was so sigular: We read Homer becasue he is Homer. The Trojan War gets taken up along with "him".
@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
6 ай бұрын
Well said. Thanks for watching!
In one Greek myth Zeus fell in love with Nemesis and persued her over the earth and through the sea, she constantly changed her form Zeus copulated with her when he took the form if a swan and Nemesis laid an egg which created Helen
Great video Tyvm
Nice video Kelly!
fascinating
Troy story: to infinity and beyond! Starring Homer Simpson and Brad Pitt ☺️ Joke aside thanks so much for the history lessons Kelly 😊
Existe este canal en español , francés o italiano ?
The iliad is the second fullest epic after gilgamesh to be preserved so its old age makes it a time machine capsule
So the Iliad ass we have it today is the one that Pisistratus in the 6th century standardised right? I heard something like that.
Want that shirt, couldn't find it on the merch store.
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2 жыл бұрын
Hi Apollo! You can find this shirt at flarohillustration.com/store
You 'the host' look beautiful 😍. And if you made some animation in the narration, it would be more interesting.
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I love woman with smarts...right on..
@davidbarber3821
2 жыл бұрын
I image her on a date giving history lessons like this
Very interesting and you presented the story certainly well, I was very interested in what prince Paris do. He was stole the wife of someone. So it means he commit sin to take someone wife. And God said not to love someone wife. The God was angry at Troy and destroy it. If the people of Troy send back Helen to his husband the God must very happy about it. But what Troy do itis happy to support sin, Troy didn't punished sinners but praised them that why the God was angry and destroyed Troy.
Nothing like the Brad Pit movie
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Any way he chose it was bound 2 b a mesa. Helen was beautiful but also married. He definitely needed 2 not choose her. I probably would have chosen riches.
How annoying this BCE woke way of talking
Where is the location of the city Troy?
@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia
6 ай бұрын
It is located in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey.