Which epic characteristic is represented by the opening lines of the iliad by homer? what shame, what woe is this to greece! what joy to troy's proud monarch, and the friends of troy! that adverse gods commit to stern debate the best, the bravest, of the grecian state. young as ye are, this youthful heat restrain, nor think your nestor's years and wisdom vain. a godlike race of heroes once i knew, such as no more these aged eyes shall view! lives there a chief to match pirithous' fame, dryas the bold, or ceneus' deathless name; theseus, endued with more than mortal might, or polyphemus, like the gods in fight? the use of epic simile starting in medias res invoking the muse the use of epithets

The use of epic simile

Explanation:

The epic characteristic that is represented in these opening lines is the use of epic simile. Epic simile is a type of extended simile. This usually runs several lines, and it tries to highlight and intensify the heroic deeds and stature of the subject being discussed. It serves as a decoration to emphasize grandeur. Epic simile is one of the elements that is often found in Greek epics.

hospitality is mentioned many times in odysseus. it is known as xenia in the poem. one notable example is.

here is a poor man come, a wanderer,

driven by want to beg his bread, and everyone

in hall gave bits, to cram his bag—only

antinous threw a stool, and banged his shoulder

the lines show odysseus disguised as a beggar and shares his bread with another beggar in a weird way because he had to defeat him in order to eat. however, odysseus does not kill the old man and even shows his hospitality.

explanation:

have a great day!

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.