It will always be based around a central heroic figure, contain grandiose speeches and have as its background a hugely important event, take Homer's "Iliad" set against the remarkable backdrop of the Trojan War, for example. ... This is reminiscent of the intervention of Aphrodite in Book V of Homer's "Iliad" to remove her son Aeneas from the battlefield. ...

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