... a tool to promote his own agenda: to shape, and potentially change, the values of his society. Through the examination of the central characters in The Iliad, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost, one can come to comprehend this transition throughout the epic tradition. The first known poems in the classical epic tradition were the two Homeric epics: The Iliad ... beliefs that he shared with her. In the poem, the Faerie Queene, also referred to as Gloriana, represents an idealized version of Queen Elizabeth. Even though she does not appear in the poem, those around her speak of her hig...

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