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iliad
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[ noun ] (verse,Greek antiquity,writing) a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy
Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)On these pillars rested that solid basis for life and thought which was soon to be manifested in the remarkably unlimited ken of the Iliad . Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era , this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750 . The Dipylon_Geometric pottery of Athens and the Iliad are amazing manifestations of the inherent potentialities of Greek civilization ; but both were among the last products of a phase which was ending . Many potters clung_to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; the poet of the Iliad deliberately archaized . The antecedents of Dipylon vases and of the Iliad lie_in the Aegean past . Related terms |
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