the Iliad has a tight focus on asliver of time during the war. The Iliad and Odessey were just two poems in a collection of epics that told a much greater story. Yes, the Iliad had sequels and prequels that can be broken down
Homeric similes compare two unlike things to bring out aspects of a character or event.What is an Epic Simile? Homer is a semi-legendary figure who composed two of the greatest poems known to history: The Iliad, about the ten-year-long Trojan War, and The Odyssey, which relates the war...
It’s kind of an event among the literary community. There has been much debate about it on Twitter both positive and negative. It hasn’t come out yet, so not everybody has read it. I don’t get into engaging with people who haven’t read it. I feel like it's a sort of ...
About a decade ago, for example, some professors of English presented Milton's Paradise Lost, at the leisurely pace of one book a week. Last year or the year before a battery of students went non-stop through Dante's Divine Comedy in translation. This year a group of students decided to...