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

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

Iliad 24

Iliad 16: ὁ θάνᾰτος τοῦ Πατρόκλου, or: 'The Death of Patroclus'

Iliad 3: Paris brings a bow to a sword fight with Menelaus... the duel to end the war

Iliad 2: 'Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?' (Marlowe)