Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil |
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Achaeans Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Ajax Alexandrian ancient Greek Apollonius Argonautica argue Athena audience battle narrative beginning behavior called Calypso Catalogue century character Circe conventional crew critics culture death describes Diomedes divine duel Enkidu Epic Cycle epic poetry episode Euryalus fact father fight figure formulaic Gilgamesh gives goddess gods Hector Helen Hera hero heroic Hesiod Homeric Homeric poems human Iliad imagine instance Ithaca Jason killed kind king language Latin lines literary male Medea Menelaus metrical mother Mycenaean narrator narrator's Nausicaa Nestor Odys Odysseus Odysseus's oral poet oral poetic Paris passage Patroclus Penelope perhaps person Phaeacians phrase Priam Pylos reader remarks reminds Roman saga scene Scheria seems sense sexual shield simile speak speech stereotypic story suitors Telemachus tells Thetis things tradition tragic travels Trojan Trojan War Troy Turnus underworld University Press Virgil warrior wife woman women words young Zeus