Other examples include the Greek accusative "paeana" perhaps picking up Achilles speech to the Greeks after the death of Hector in Iliad 22.365 a particularly apt epic reference in this instance. Further to this is Vergil's probable adaptation of Homer's sleep of bronze (Iliad 11.241). Connington also points out the similarity between lines 734-735 and Iliad 7.243 indeed Mezentius" victim Orodes has forecast the imminent fatality of his slayer just as Hector did to Achilles and indeed is met with the same abrupt dismissal, and again 736 with Iliad 16. 862-863 where the failing Patro...

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The Aeneid is not a mere plagiarism of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. ... The latter half of the Aeneid resembles the Iliad as war, spurred on by Juno, breaks out between the Trojans and the Latins in book VII and Turnus summons his warriors to defend their home (7:562) as Paris did at Troy. ...

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War is shown to create discord not only for the Trojans but for the Greeks of the Iliad too; Diomede remarks "We are a band of men that even Priam might pity from that campaign we have been washed up on many a different shore.... However, strength in war is a defining characteristic for Virgil's characters, as it was with Homer's Iliad; Achilles excelled in combat and as such was declared the greatest of heroes as his strength was feared above all others during the Trojan War. ... " Similar to Homer's Iliad, it is clear that Aegean and Mediterranean culture during this...

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