A Heroic Simile is a literary device in epic poetry that belongs to the class of extended similes and is distinguished by its elaborate, formal comparison involving mythological or heroic imagery to intensify narrative grandeur.
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Epic SimileHomeric Simile
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Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight
Stephen Scully · Harvard Studies in Classical Philology · 2003 · 150 citations
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The Similes of the Iliad and the Odyssey Compared
William W. Minton, D. J. N. Lee · The Classical World · 1965 · 65 citations
Denis Feeney · Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) · 2014 · 62 citations
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Poetics of the Homeric Simile and the Theory of (Poetic) Simile
Ziva Ben-Porat · Poetics Today · 1992 · 30 citations
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- DJD. J. N. Lee
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- Poetics Today
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- Arethusa
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- Mouseion Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
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- Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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- The Classical World
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