The two stated works by Homer are the precursors to hundreds of other poems that contain similar patterns, including Dante's Divine Comedy, and the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. ... Myths, by definition, are stories that use fantastical, magical, and/or supernatural elements to express beliefs, philosophies, or explanations for life's mysteries and questions that cannot be easily rationalized in realistic or scientific methods. ...

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