... present to increase the immediacy of a scene. Virgil also uses the future tense, for prophecy and prediction. Setting time is in the aftermath of the Trojan War; about 1000 B.C. Setting place is the Mediterranean, including the north coast of Asia Minor, Carthage, and Italy. Protagonist of the poem is Aeneas. Major conflict of the poem is that Aeneas is fated to travel from the ruins of Troy to Italy ... While Aeneas has a strongly emotional side, this too is counterbalanced by the wishes of the gods. Even though they have these two things in common, it is clear that their bigge...

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... believe Agamemnon would ask such a thing well aware of the honor code. To top things off, Agamemnon directs the threat directly at Achilles. His own honor and prize is now at stake. He's enraged with the thought that he stands up for the lives of all the other men and his sensitivity gets him into this ... his advantage - as a device to win over his men and to appear before them "morally kinglier" than Agamemnon. Since they already do honor him - they would honor him so much more if he were to return and fight with them despite how he feels about Agamemnon. 5. ... the use of the word ...

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