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Achaeans Achillean Achilles adventures Aeolic Agamemnon Ajax Aphrodite Apollo appear artistic Asia Minor Athena belong called century B.C. certainly composed Cretan Crete culture developed Diomedes divine Dorians earlier early Egypt Egyptian epic poetry especially Eumaeus fight goddess gods Greece Greek Greek epic hard Hector Helen Hera heroes heroic age Hesiod Hittite Homeric poems Homeric poetry Homeridae human Iliad and Odyssey important island Ithaca killed kind king known language later least less lived Lycia means Menelaus mind Minoan minstrels moral Mycenae Mycenaean mythical myths narrative natural Nestor Odysseus Olympus oral poetry originally Patroclus Peisistratus Penelope perhaps Phoenician places poetic Poseidon probably recitation ritual saga Scheria seems shewn shews ships sometimes Sparta story suitors tale Telemachus tell Thetis things thought tion told tradition Trojan Trojan War Troy truth Ulyssean Vergil verse words Zeus