entity · work_iliad
Iliad
A literary work represented with composition, tradition, and historical-memory layers.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Properties and assignments
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Early Iron Age
The period following the regional ends of the Bronze Age, represented here as a transformation rather than an instantaneous universal boundary.
Why does this record have this property?
The surviving epic reached written/compositional form in the Early Iron Age or Archaic period, while drawing on older oral material.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC — Oliver Dickinson (2006)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Iliad.