Milton would insert into the printed text of his poem his own anticipation that his epic would receive the same universal approbation as Homer's and Virgil's.

弥尔顿会把自己的预想也写进他的诗里,他认为自己的史诗也会得到普遍的认可,就如荷马和维吉尔的史诗。

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Depicting a few weeks in the final year of the Greek siege of Troy, Homer's epic glitters with bronze spears and the blazing sun.

ECONOMIST: Homer��s ��Iliad��

Indeed, as Greece's politics turned increasingly republican and populist at the end of the 20th century, interest waned in heroes, royal tombs and literary sources such as Homer's epic poems.

ECONOMIST: Ancient Greece

Mr Armitage has penned a version of Homer's second epic which deals with the long-delayed homecoming of Odysseus from the Trojan wars.

ECONOMIST: Homer