CHS Open House: The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, with Casey Dué

September 8, 2015Posted byclafiunderCHS US Events

We are pleased to welcome Casey Dué for the first in our series of CHS Open House sessions for fall 2015. The discussion, on theIliadand the Greek Bronze Age, will take place on Thursday, September 10, at 2 p.m. EDT.

She introduces the topic as follows:

How old is theIliad? The Trojan War has traditionally been dated since antiquity to about 1250 BCE, and theIliadis usually dated five hundred years or more after that, but there are hints in the linguistic and archaeological record that something like ourIliadwas being composed and performed centuries even before 1250. In this Open House I will discuss what some of that evidence is and offer some general thoughts on what the implications are for our understanding of the “Homeric Question.”

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Casey Dué will be primarily drawing on the following three articles for the discussion, although it is not necessary to read them prior to the event:

• S. Morris, “A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry.”American Journal of Archaeology93 (1989)

• E. S. Sherratt, “‘Reading the Texts’: Archaeology and the Homeric Question.”Antiquity64 (1990)

• Watkins, C. “The basic formula and the announcement of death.”How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. New York, 1995

Also relevant is:

• Nagy, Gregory.Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter. Cambridge, MA, 1974.

Casey Dué

Casey Dué is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. She holds a B.A. in Classics from Brown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D in Classical Philology from Harvard University. Her teaching and research interests include ancient Greek oral traditions, Homeric poetry, Greek tragedy, and textual criticism.

Photo credit:Olga Levaniouk: Lion Gate, Mycenae