... made the mold. In writing The Aeneid, Virgil was composing a poem he hoped would become the national poem of the Roman people as Homeric epic were of such special significance for the Greeks. Virgil derived from Homer the use of hexameter verse, the duodecimal division into books, the ... a descent to the underworld, and the active intervention of supernatural beings among others. It is important to remember that had Virgil not known the Homeric epics, the Aeneid would have had a much different form and style. "Virgil is accredited with using Homer in composing his masterpiece for it dem...

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... , it should be person of lofty stature; a gigantic figure of great cosmic importance. However in the back ground there are always divine powers evil as well as good, such as gods and goddesses. The weapons used in such epics are also conventional; swords, chariots, spears, shields and such like war machinery. And finally it should be long enough to encompass at ... epic poet. Moreover, the abundant and frequent allusions to classical mythology and literature, to Biblical mythology to contemporary literatures, frequent Latinism and inversions, and above all the frequent use of Homeric sim...

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