... structured framework which defines it as a genre. It will always be based around a central heroic figure, contain grandiose speeches and have as its background a hugely important event, take Homer's "Iliad" set against the remarkable backdrop of the Trojan War, for example. Here we begin to realise how Pope's text is, in effect, neo-classical, how it imitates the ... Belinda's psychological state following the "rape". The significance of this journey is two-fold; firstly, it mimics the epic formula, being reminiscent of the journeys of both Odysseus in Homer's "Odyssey", and Aeneas in Vi...

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... later is analogous to the bond that exists between omnipotent kings and their subjects; the former is reminiscient of a king's attachment to the chosen few outstanding servants or favorites. The general attachment of the gods and the peoples who worship them provides the background for the battles that take place both on the Trojan land and the Olympus. The war between the Achaians ... which they interact with each other. If the gods in the Iliad are depicted as being decidedly human, many of the heroes that dominate the Trojan battlefields are truly divine figures. Achilleus, Hector, N...

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