Who is the the epic poem The Rage of Achilles is based on attributed to?
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Terence Hawkins Terence Hawkins (born 1956) is an American author of numerous short stories and two novels, "American Neolithic", published by C&R Press, and "The Rage of Achilles", a recounting of "The Iliad" in the form of a novel.
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Iliad The Iliad ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς "Ilias ", ] in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
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Tryphiodorus Tryphiodorus (Greek: Τρυφιόδωρος "Tryphiodoros") is an incorrect spelling for Triphiodorus (Greek: Τριφιόδωρος "Triphiodoros"). The name means ‘gift of Triphis’ (one of the local deities of his home town Panopolis, today Akhmim, in Egypt). The confusion between the two spellings occurred already in the sixth century AD due to iotacism. He is thought to have lived in the third century AD and his only surviving work is "The Sack of Troy", an epic poem in 691 verses. Other recorded titles include "Marathoniaca" and "The Story of Hippodamea".
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Matter of Rome According to the medieval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. Bodel divided all the literary cycles he knew best into the Matter of Britain, the Matter of France and the Matter of Rome (although "non-cyclical" romance also existed). The Matter of Rome also included what is referred to as the Matter of Troy, consisting of romances and other texts based on the Trojan War and its aftereffects, including the adventures of Aeneas.
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Apollonius of Rhodes Apollonius of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος "Apollṓnios Rhódios"; Latin: "Apollonius Rhodius" ; fl. first half of 3rd century BCE), was an ancient Greek author, best known for the "Argonautica", an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is one of the few extant examples of the epic genre and it was both innovative and influential, providing Ptolemaic Egypt with a "cultural mnemonic" or national "archive of images", and offering the Latin poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Flaccus a model for their own epics. His other poems, which survive only in small fragments, concerned the beginnings or foundations of cities, such as Alexandria and Cnidusplaces of interest to the Ptolemies, whom he served as a scholar and librarian at the Library of Alexandria. A literary dispute with Callimachus, another Alexandrian librarian/poet, is a topic much discussed by modern scholars since it is thought to give some insight into their poetry, although there is very little evidence that there ever was such a dispute between the two men. In fact almost nothing at all is known about Apollonius and even his connection with Rhodes is a matter for speculation. Once considered a mere imitator of Homer, and therefore a failure as a poet, his reputation has been enhanced by recent studies, with an emphasis on the special characteristics of Hellenistic poets as scholarly heirs of a long literary tradition writing at a unique time in history.
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Polyphemus Polyphemus ( ; Greek: Πολύφημος "Polyphēmos") is the giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's "Odyssey". His name means "abounding in songs and legends". Polyphemus first appears as a savage man-eating giant in the ninth book of the "Odyssey". Some later Classical writers link his name with the nymph Galatea and present him in a different light.
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Tithonus In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός,  "Tithonos" ) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. Tithonus was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ). The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a "rhapsode", as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, "circa" 470–460 BC. Competitive singing, as in the "Contest of Homer and Hesiod", is also depicted vividly in the "Homeric Hymn to Apollo", and mentioned in the two "Hymns to Aphrodite".
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Claudian Claudius Claudianus, usually known in English as Claudian ( ; c. 370 – c. 404 AD), was a Latin poet associated with the court of the emperor Honorius at Mediolanum (Milan), and particularly with the general Stilicho. His work, written almost entirely in hexameters or elegiac couplets, falls into three main categories: poems for Honorius, poems for Stilicho, and mythological epic.
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Emathus Emathus, Emathius or Amathus (Greek:Ἥμαθος, Ἠμάθιος, Ἄμαθος ), was son of Makednos, from whom Emathia (the Homeric name of Lower Macedonia) was believed to have derived its name. The daughters of his brother Pierus, the Pierides, are sometimes called Emathides after him. "The Emathian" or "Emathius" in Latin is a frequently used epithet in Latin poets for Alexander the Great.
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Timon of Athens (person) Timon of Athens (Greek: Τίμων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος , "gen".: Τίμωνος) was a citizen of Athens whose reputation for misanthropy grew to legendary status. According to the historian Plutarch, Timon lived during the era of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC – 404 BC).
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Iliupersis The Iliupersis (Greek: Ἰλίου πέρσις , "Iliou persis", "Sack of Ilium"), also known as The Sack of Troy, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the "Trojan" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the "Iliou persis" comes chronologically after that of the "Little Iliad", and is followed by the "Nostoi" ("Returns"). The "Iliou persis" was sometimes attributed by ancient writers to Arctinus of Miletus (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter.
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Hegemon of Thasos Hegemon of Thasos (Greek: Ἡγήμων ό Θάσιος ) was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to Aristotle ("Poetics", ii. 5) he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous. When the news of the disastrous defeat of the Sicilian Expedition reached Athens, his parody of the "Gigantomachia" was being performed: it is said that the audience were so amused by it that, instead of leaving to show their grief, they remained in their seats. He was also the author of a comedy called "Philinne" (Philine), written in the manner of Eupolis and Cratinus, in which he attacked a well-known courtesan. Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp. 5, 108, 407).
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Nestor of Laranda Lucius Septimius Nestor (Ancient Greek: Λεύκιος Σεπτίμιος Νέστωρ ) of Laranda in Lycaonia was a Greek poet who lived during the late-second and early-third centuries AD. He composed learned poetry on a variety of subjects in the tradition of Hellenistic poets like Nicander and Parthenius of Nicaea, but his "magnum opus" was perhaps the lipogrammatic "Iliad", a work which would have been a showpiece for his poetic virtuosity and knowledge of Homeric scholarship. Although his fame was great during his lifetime, little survives of Nestor’s poetry today, but its influence may be recognized in Nonnus' "Dionysiaca", which appears also to have drawn upon the work of Nestor's son Peisander.
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Homer Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος ] , "Hómēros") is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", two epic poems which are the central works of ancient Greek literature. The "Iliad" is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The "Odyssey" focuses on the journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy.
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Dares Phrygius Dares Phrygius (Ancient Greek: Δάρης , "Dárēs"; Middle Welsh: "Dared" ), according to Homer, was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus. He was supposed to have been the author of an account of the destruction of Troy, and to have lived before Homer. A work in Latin, purporting to be a translation of this, and entitled "Daretis Phrygii de excidio Trojae historia", was much read in the Middle Ages, and was then ascribed to Cornelius Nepos, who is made to dedicate it to Sallust; but the language is extremely advanced, and the work belongs to a period much later than the time of Nepos (probably the 5th century AD).
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Aethiopis The Aethiopis or Aithiopis (Greek: Αἰθιοπίς , "Aithiopis"; Latin: "Aethiopis" ) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the "Trojan" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the "Aethiopis" comes chronologically immediately after that of the Homeric "Iliad", and is followed by that of the "Little Iliad". The "Aethiopis" was sometimes attributed by ancient writers to Arctinus of Miletus (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter.
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Calliope In Greek mythology, Calliope ( ; Ancient Greek: Καλλιόπη , "Kalliopē" "beautiful-voiced") is the muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. She is spoken of by Hesiod and Ovid as the "Chief of all Muses."
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Aeacidae Aeacidae (Greek: Αἰακίδαι ) refers to the Greek descendants of Aeacus, including Peleus, son of Aeacus, and Achilles, grandson of Aeacus—several times in the "Iliad" Homer refers to Achilles as Αἰακίδης (Aiakides: II.860, 874; IX.184, 191, etc.). Neoptolemus was the son of Achilles and the princess Deidamea. The kings of Epirus and Olympias, mother to Alexander the Great, claimed to be members of this lineage.
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Ludovico Ariosto Ludovico Ariosto (] ; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic "Orlando Furioso" (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato", describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.
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Catalogue of Ships The Catalogue of Ships (Ancient Greek: νεῶν κατάλογος , "neōn katalogos") is an epic catalogue in Book 2 of Homer's "Iliad" (2.494-759), which lists the contingents of the Achaean army that sailed to Troy. The catalogue gives the names of the leaders of each contingent, lists the settlements in the kingdom represented by the contingent, sometimes with a descriptive epithet that fills out a half-verse or articulates the flow of names and parentage and place, and gives the number of ships required to transport the men to Troy, offering further differentiations of weightiness. A similar, though shorter, Catalogue of the Trojans and their allies follows (2.816–877). A similar catalogue appears in the Pseudo-Apollodoran "Bibliotheca".
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Alexander of Paris Alexander of Paris, also known as Alexander of Bernay, was a Norman poet of the 12th century, who wrote "Li romans d'Alexandre" ("Romance of Alexander"), one of the first poems written in French on the mythical exploits of Alexander the Great. It was composed in twelve-syllable lines, named alexandrines after this work (or possible after him). He was born in Bernay, Eure.
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The Fury of Achilles L'ira di Achille, internationally released as The Fury of Achilles, is a 1962 Italian historical drama set in the ninth year of the Trojan War and is based primarily on Homer's "Iliad". The film was directed by Marino Girolami and starred Gordon Mitchell as Achilles.