Posts

World of the Hero: What makes a passage an epic piece of writing?

Aeneid 10, Part 1

Aeneid 4: 'You're nice n'all, but I gotta go!'

Aeneid 2: 'Unspeakable, o queen, is the grief you bid me renew!'... 'Perhaps you ask too what was Priam's fate...'

Iliad 24

Iliad 19: breakfast first, fighting second... the most important meal of the Trojan War

Iliad 18: War and Peace on the Shield of Achilles, an imago mundi

Iliad 10: 'An easy commerce of the old and the new' (T. S. Eliot)

Iliad 4: Olympians...

Iliad 1: Men and gods, women and goddesses