The influences behind Against the Grain (À rebours)

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   c. 750 BCE

   Iliad

   Homer

   Archaic. Archaic Greece. Written in Ancient Greek.

   Epic of the wrath of Achilles during the siege of Troy.

   What it handed down

   To The Poems of Ossian (1765)

   Structural model, probable.

   Macpherson presented his Fingal as a northern epic comparable to Homer, and Hugh Blair's accompanying dissertation pressed the comparison. Macpherson later published a translation of the Iliad himself.

   To Aeneid

   Structural model, well documented.

   The second half of the Aeneid restages the Iliad in Italy, with Turnus as a new Achilles and single combats, catalogues and funeral games on the Homeric model.

   Where it came from

   This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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