In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the characters, plot, and style of The Iliad and The Aeneid. ... Achilles brutally kills his enemies, and disrespects the body of King Hector, whom he killed as well. ... But, after Achilles kills Hector, he dishonors his body, dragging it behind his chariot. ... In The Aeneid, Aeneas kills Turnus, and in The Iliad, Achilles kills Hector. ... Athena tricks Hector into fighting Achilles, and the Gods want Aeneas to kill Turnus so he can start up the Roman Empire. ...

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Protagonist of the epic is Achilles. ... Rising action of the poem is Hector's assault on the Achaean ships; the return of Patroclus to combat; the death of Patroclus. ... Falling action is the retreat of the Trojan army; Achilles' revenge on Hector; the Achaeans' desecration of Hector's corpse. ... Patroclus's return to battle foreshadows Achilles' return to battle, for example, and Hector's taunting of the dead Patroclus foreshadows the desecration of his own corpse by Achilles. Also, Achilles and Hector themselves make references to their own fates-a...

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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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Three Faces of Aeneas: The Gladiatorial Combat of auctores in Chaucer's House of Fame Dependence on literary tradition established by the textual legacy of prestigious Latin authors characterized the period of the composition of the House of Fame, one of Geoffrey Chaucer's early works. Authoritative Latin writers "auctores "provided the works of medieval writers with invaluable truths', which contributed to the credibility of medieval texts, though robbing them of certain amount of originality. However, in authorizing their works by utilizing the material produ...

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