Educational Demo
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
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all this intervention of God's in human affairs to advance their own interests and satisfy their own passions is Homeric. But what is not Homeric is the constant reference to history in particular to roman history, which is a recurring feature of the United the Homeric epics have no historical background to speak of, as C. S. Lewis puts it, there is no pretense. Indeed, there was no possibility of pretending that the world or even Greece would've been much altered if Odysseus had never made it home at all. But the need is always conscious of history, roman history. Many centuries of it. Very often this reference is explicit, As in the long list and descriptions of Great Romans yet to be born, whose spirits are shown to unece by his father in Elysium in book six. But often the illusion is not explicit, and though it was obvious to Virgil's roman readers, it may not be so without explanation Today.