After Hectors death the first instance of any kind of relationship between man and god is witnessed after Apollo protects his corpse from damage. The second instance sees Zeus send down Iris in order to help Priam in retrieving his sons body rather than stealing it from Achilles. ... Furthermore we see firsthand the love of the gods for Achilles after he is pardoned for disrespecting hectors body. ... In another instance, upon the return of Hectors body Andromache predicts that her son will have a similar fate to his father. ... Coincidentally a similar treatment of Achilles is seen thr...

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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. ... 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 Patroclus has been addressing Hector; the question is why does Vergil choose to use so many Homeric ref...

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The most important invocation of the muse is: (1. 1-7) "Sing goddess, the anger of Peleus" son Achilles/ and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the/ Achaians,/ hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls/ of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting/ of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished/ since that time when first there stood in division of conflict/ Atreus" son the lord of men and brilliant Achilles." ... (Achilles" rage and the unfortunate consequences) A formulaic style that Homer thrusts within the Iliad for charact...

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