From The "Homer" Marriage Heroic Age

Homer, we can call him a poet, philosopher and theologian, linguist andsociologist, historian, geographer, agriculture and forestry scientist and technologist,sage, as Professor Harvard Locke says, he is an ancient encyclopedia. His remarkableepic is acknowledged as the source of western literature, its influence has spread invarious periods in the development of western literature. Professor Ross gives hisevaluation: Homer “in all aspects of ancient Greek and European literature” set thedevelopment of “a proper direction.” In the history of western civilization, the ancientGreeks in one of the most important starting point, the Greek culture not only stronglyshaped the western tradition, but also shaped today’s world.It includes Iliad and Odyssey. The former shows us grand battle scenes, the Trojan War in the first tenth years about fifty days; the latter describes in detail the Greek hero Odysseus the returning process of ten years after the war. In addition, two epic also vividly describe many of the earth and the love marriage stories, we can see the relationship between the sexes in the family status. Read text is presented in this paper on the basis of combining Greek unique social reality at that time, the marriage of the ancient Greeks analysis and summary, discusses from three aspects, each chapter summary of specific content is as follows.Introduction. Simply introduce Homer and Homer’s epic; Define heroic age; Review on the Homer marriage issue the research status at home and abroad so far.The first chapter, the ancient Greeks concluded the conditions of marriage. Theancient Greeks regarded youth as a precious wealth of life, the enjoyment, especiallythe love (mainly refers to between men and women and men of sensual love betweengay), as the greatest happiness of existence. Although the ancient Greeks attach great importance to the subjective feelings, the pursuit of love has a unique station, but theAncient Greeks of marriage and love, the separation of basic in marriage relationship between men and women are hard to use "love" to describe. Both men and women aremarried, they value is not of men and women both parties mutually two feelings, stat-us, property and more inclined to each other, hope that through marriage to enlargethe strength of his family, they often through marriage to achieve their talents, thepursuit of love, wealth, and so on.The second chapter introduces the role of the ancient Greek in marriage andfamily. Marriage is one of the important part of social life, the women in the marriagerelationship is always in a subservient position, have no rights of freedom, they havebeen the repression of patriarchy and masculine. And special social reality in ancientGreece decided the male was galloping on the battlefield heroes, they think of her as aprotection of wealth. They are more focused on chasing on the battlefield can makepeople remember the honor, but lack of love to his wife’s care. At the same time, theancient Greeks just asked his wife unilaterally loyalty, but as a husband the men canbe free from all bondage of loyalty, can affairs are not subject to any restrictions, theinequality of the relationship is one of the typical features of the ancient Greekmarriage.The third chapter introduces the ancient Greek marriage forms and the value ofpursuit. Ancient Greek society is a relatively chaotic era; both men and women willnot be chaste self-controlled life as a symbol of happiness. Between the immortalgods and mortals death happened many moral overflowing loves stories and Homeralso used a lot of space to describe the love between men and women. This specialphenomenon was related to philosophy and the social environment at that time.Women before marriage must listen to his father’s will, to obey the arrangement of herhusband and son after the marriage, female subordination thought at the time of socialrecognition. In addition, Homer in the ethical relationship and the ancient Greeks toshow us negative view of marriage, also describes the ideal family relationships, theideal love, whether it’s Wednesday, mark and her husband, Hector, separation oftouching scenes or Odysseus and Jennifer stand and wait for each other all show thevalue of true love.The part of conclusion. Summarize all aspects of the ancient Greeks marriage; clarify the ancient Greeks attitude to marriage. In pointing out the existence ofnegative factors, found out the good side of excavation behind the dark social realityin the marriage at the same time, to create the ideal harmonious marriageenlightenment...