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Achaeans Achilles action Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Alcinous Andromache Antilochus Apollo Apologue Aristarchus Aristotle army Athena attention Attic tragedy audience bards battle beginning body caesura Catalogue characters chariot chief death described dialogue Diomede divine dramatic emotion enter episode epithets Eumaeus fact fighting gives Glaucus Greek hearer Hector Hecuba Helen Hence Hera Hermes hero heroic Homer Homeric poems honor human hysteron proteron Iliad interest inverted Ithaca latter listener literature lyric Menelaus Menesthius mentioned mind Muse narrative narrator nature Nestor never object Odysseus Olympian Olympus oral Patroclus pause Penelope person Phaeacian Phoenix picture plan of Zeus Plato poet poet's poetic poetry present Priam primitive principle realism reality reason S. E. Bassett Sarpedon says scene scholars seems ships similes single slain Socrates song speech story Suitors tale Telemachus tells theme Thetis thought tion tragic Trojan unity Vergil verse words Wrath Zeus