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    Ovidius Naso Analysis

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    style is very provoking and used against the faint-hearted. His wide range of vocabulary made it easy for him to incorporate various metaphors about the world and its humans in the poem. This poem is the only composition that Ovid wrote with dactylic hexameter. He used this to create a chronological order of the myths throughout the poem. An Example That Demonstrates The Style “My mind leads me to speak now of forms changed into new bodies: O gods above, inspire this undertaking (which you’ve…

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    Away portray the support mechanisms that even Herculean individuals rely on in every society. Noting that Homer starts the Odyssey in media res after his previous poem, the Iliad while Zemeckis starts from the beginning. Homer skilfully uses dactylic hexameter, epithets and repetition with ‘earth-shaking Poseidon’, and epic similes such as ‘Odysseys melted… as a women weeps, lying over the body of her husband, who fell fighting for her city… while men hit her… Such…

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