... Homer in the eighth century B.C. Homer is given credit as being the father of epic poetry. Through these poems, Homer captured the essence of what man is and the dreams of what man wanted to be. He set these poems against the political chaos, the Trojan War, of his time. Homer wrote the Iliad ... years. Homer captured truths that were common to his people and are still common to all of man kind to this day. Writers have reworked his two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, by rewriting them to tell a story that reflects the ideas and circumstances common to each writer and his time in ...

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... using digression is to give the audience a sense of full and living background so that they might connect more to the story. Type scenes are another way of characterizing oral poems. Type scenes can include the way that the characters pray to the gods, including extending their arms in the air and looking towards the sky and also praising the god ... people such as an army. Agamemnon and Achilles both address the entire army in each of their speeches, both of which are addressing Zeus. Another characteristic is the use of epic similes, which are comparisons. In this book, Talthybios "in...

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Homer's epic, the Iliad, cam be depicted as a horrible, bloody war or a celebration of heroism brought about by the great soldiers of the Achaeans and Trojans. Many people die in vain because ... of the greatest Greek writings of all times showing both the brutality and heroism of war. The Iliad shows the brutality of war by the many unkindly deaths throughout the epic. Homer describes many deaths in violent, anatomic detail. The plague that Agamemnon brought upon the Achaeans is one example of the brutality of war. The plague was made because of ... more mature, which is why we can look ba...

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... this using many different techniques. He composed the Odyssey and the Iliad in long lines of six beats each called Dactylic Hexameter, which the ancients thought suited the formality of epic poetry. In every other sense as well, including the nature of the language and the subject, the verse of Homer is poetry. Most significantly, Homer's verses were meant to be ... oral-formulaic. In oral-formulaic traditions, generations of poet performers develop a special poetic language that consists of a number of musical phrases and longer story elements out of which long narrative poems are cons...

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