.); The Iliad begins nine years after the start of the Trojan War. ... Motifs of this poem are armor; burial; fire etc. ... Also, Achilles and Hector themselves make references to their own fates-about which they have been informed; technically, only Hector's references foreshadow any event in the poem itself, however, as Achilles dies after the close of the epic. ... Virgil died in 19 B.C., before he finished revising The Aeneid; it was published after his death. ... Aeneas wins, and, after considering sparing his enemy's life, he decides to kill Turnus to avenge Pallas's ...

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