These texts occupy a central position in the self-definition of Western culture. ... He composed the Odyssey and the Iliad in long lines of six beats each called Dactylic Hexameter, which the ancients thought suited the formality of epic poetry. In every other sense as well, including the nature of the language and the subject, the verse of Homer is poetry. ... In the Iliad when he mentions Achilleus it is complemented by the phrase "of the swift feet". ...

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The main motif of conducting the research is to draw a comparative picture between "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid," so at the beginning we have provided some of the major key factors and basing on those factors we have categorized our comparisons between the two books. "The Iliad" (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the wee...

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