1973/05/01 by Mary O. Knox · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Business, Management and Accounting · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Law, logistics, and international trade #Period (music) #Relation (database) #Poetry #EPIC #History #Literature #Set (abstract data type) #Archaeology #Art #Aesthetics #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1017/s0009838800036429
openalex publication_date 1973/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07
This paper is primarily an attempt to study the Homeric evidence on houses, particularly on the , in relation to the relevant remains. The reverse procedure, illuminating the archaeological evidence by references to Homer, is a hazardous one, as we shall see. It is often unclear just what is represented by the descriptions in the poems, and what period, if any, the things described belong to. I shall be concerned with these questions here. Are the houses in the poems Mycenaean: genuine traditions from the period in which the stories are set? Or are they Geometric: contemporary? Or a memory of some time in between? Or a mixture? We know so little about the development of the epic tradition that any possible source of information is worth pursuing.