The Iliad

    Use The Iliad and search for the listed books. Homer’s preferred medium of poetic comparison is simile rather than metaphor, and his similes are “extended.” The simile does more than establish a likeness between A and B; it goes on to describe B in great detail, some of the details not like A at all.Yet, these details, the apparent development of B for its own sake, often do suggest points of comparison that lie below the surface, and often, too, they make significant comments on broader aspects of the situation in which they appear.Discuss the function of the extended or epic simile in at leastthree of the following passages: XVIII.219-25XXII.33-37XVIII.339-43XXII.178-240XXIV.511-14