FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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Virgil: Aeneas
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Homer: Odyssey
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Homer: Iliad
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Boccaccio:Dekameron
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Detailed explanation-1: -In The Odyssey, Homer employs most of the literary and poetic devices associated with epics: catalogs, digressions, long speeches, journeys or quests, various trials or tests of the hero, similes, metaphors, and divine intervention.
Detailed explanation-2: -The story of the Odyssey is a quintessential quest that relates to the passage through life and the importance of love and family and home. Many readers today find the Odyssey more accessible and more “modern” than the “archaic” Iliad.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Odyssey, like its companion poem, The Iliad, is an epic poem, meaning an exalted story of a warrior-like hero’s journey and dealings with the gods, told in a formal poetic structure.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Odyssey influenced modern literature through its narrative structure and the themes and characters presented in it. The Odyssey is one of modern literature’s references when looking at the effectiveness of narrative structure in depicting the complexity of more characters in a story.