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Narrative Episodes in the Aeneid and The Odyssey. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
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In Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid the authors invoke individual narrative episodes to move the story and create the heroic form. In The Aeneid, Virgil is deliberately making exact parallels to Homer’s Odyssey particularly in the areas of the Underworld and the fates. 2 works cited. jvOdyAen.rtf
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In The Aeneid, Virgil is deliberately making parallels to Homers Odyssey particularly in the areas of the Underworld and the fates.
For example, Virgil creates an exact parallel in Book II of The Aeneid to Book XI of The Odyssey, A Gathering of Shades, in order to utilize the theme
of the Underworld to define his hero. Virgil creates these parallels between the two books to denote the extreme differences in character traits between his hero, Aeneas, and Homers
hero, Odysseus. In both stories, the heroes talk of heroic endeavors, but his work finished, Odysseus is fun loving; he allows himself to be delayed by anyone who allows
him to sing his praises. Virgil might say Odysseuss quest was not true like Aeneass quest. Though Odysseus is beloved and not faulted for this self-serving focus, Homers
characterization of him allows Virgil an opening for a much more serious and important hero. Virgil wants to draw us in by making
parallels to The Odyssey through a number of technical methods. For example, in describing one episode in which Virgil invokes the Underworld as Homer had done, Virgil writes: "Light
of Dardania, best hope of Troy,/What kept you from us for so long, and where? From what far place, O Hector, have you come, Long, long awaited?" (Virgil II: 377-380).
This can be contrasted with Homers "Son of Laertes and the gods of old,/Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways,/ why leave
the blazing sun, O man of woe, to see the cold dead and the joyless region?" (Homer XI: 102-105). The specific alliteration of the single syllable "O" sounds in "hope,"
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