Setting time is Bronze Age (around the twelfth or thirteenth century B.C.); The Iliad begins nine years after the start of the Trojan War. Setting place of the poem is Troy (a city in what is now northwestern Turkey) and its immediate environs. ... 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. ... Themes of the poem are the primacy of fate; the suffering of wanderers and the glory of Rome. ...

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