An Epic, Two Epochs

Many epic of ancient Greek and Rome handed in, "the Iliad" is the most historical research value. And because of its poetry era and the era of the stories exist between the disappearance of the text and the civilization of the fracture problems, caused the existence of two times in the history of the Department of history of composition. This paper is reading "the Iliad" and other epic, and then through the research of other scholars on the "Iliad" and the Mycenaean age, the dark age of discuss, bold put forward arguments and discussed. For the "Iliad" of the objects, such as tanks, shields, armor iron, detailed discussion and research. Aims to in-depth analysis of historical composition "Iliad" historical components in Mycenaean era and the era of darkness.Because the poet Homer legend for the blind poet, coupled with no words of inheritance, and the stories are separated by long time, "the Iliad" added to the poet’s imagination composition. Analysis of the imagination and historical prototype, discrimination of the poet the imaginary and real components of things of this paper is the important ingredient content. Such as the epic mentions many wonderful works of art, and archaeological artifacts found similar to compare, by poets imagine contradiction existing components and historical truth to get the real historical component poet imagined. This part discusses the reasoning more bold, because the epic itself is among the most imagination.Another important part of this paper is to research the original. In the epic of cremation, such as the epic of slaves and slave records, through archaeological materials research to draw a conclusion. For example on the similarities and differences of epic of Palmer Tero cross the funeral and cremation custom description of historical truth.Because of the Mycenaean age and dark age is far away in ancient, coupled with the master is not very sufficient material. Therefore, in this paper, the biggest flaw is the material enough, more inference component. But because the epic itself is literature and mythology, so add the author bold inference is to further research and further proof. So this is more like a list of many pending problems directory, just began to study the relevant academic, not entirely sure conclusion.