xii The Iliad of Homer test; and it is by this troublesome standard that a large portion of historical evidence is sifted. Consistency is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands. In brief, to write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Human nature, viewed under an inductionofextendedexperience, isthebesthelptothecriticism of human history.
The Iliad 14 Swift-footed Achilles spoke in reply: ‘Courage, and say out what truth you know, for by god-beloved Apollo to whom you pray, whose utterances you grant to the Danaans, none shall lay hand on you beside the hollow ships, no Danaan while I live and see the earth, not even if …
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What makes the Iliad an epic poem?
What makes the Iliad an epic poem?
Long narrative poem, typically book-length and often divided into individual books.
Written in dactylic hexameter
Has huge or global setting
Starts with an invocation of a muse.
Begins in medias res.
Has an epic hero who embodies the values of his culture
The hero’s success or failure will determine the fate of his people or a geographic area
whether he was blind, whether he wrote both the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”, or even if he actually existed. Whatever the case may be, the influence of the two enduring epics attributed to him is indisputable. The Iliad (800 BC) - An epic poem consisting of twenty-four books that deal with the last few days of the Trojan War. Here translated
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