... , exalted and mightiest, sky-dwelling in the dark mist: let not the sun go down not till I have broken at the chest the tunic of Hektor torn with the bronze blade, and let many companion about him go down headlong into the dust-" (Iliad II: 412-418). In the next line, Homer tells us that Zeus would of course not heed ... knowledge about his identity. Hidden knowledge dramatizes a story in many ways, like spurring a sequence of events or revealing a character's true personality. Through struggle and hardship, characters follow crucial paths that define or even shift their identity, and as...

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