Premium Content How may the demands of empire in Virgil's Aeneid be seen to modify the characteristics of Homeric epic?
By Eleanor Turney - April 20, 2006
The characteristics of Homeric epic are many and varied, but the key elements of the Odyssey and the Iliad can be narrowed down to two main things: a focus on one hero (Achilles and Odysseus, respectively) and the need for that hero to attain kleos, and in the case of Odysseus, nostos. Virgil's epic draws on Homer's epics, but because Virgil's…
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