The polis which characterized classical Greece germinated. Though the background of the epics were put in the Mycenaean age, the true time was the 10th to 8th centuries BC in Greece.

• 因此 ,史诗的背景虽然被放在迈锡尼时代 ,真正描写的却是公元前 1 0 -前 8世纪、尤其是公元前 8世纪的希腊世界