The poem, with close to half a million lines, is twenty times longer than Homer "s Odyssey and one of the longest epics in the world."

这首诗歌，接近50万行，是荷马的《奥德赛》(Homer “ s Odyssey)诗歌的20倍，也是世界上最长的英雄史诗之一。”

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The attitude to Homer' s epics directly influenced the poetics of Plato and Aristotle.

对荷马史诗的态度与柏拉图和亚理士多德的诗学思想有直接的勾连。

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They are steeped in the entire literary tradition of the underworld journey that stretches from The Odyssey of Homer up through Virgil's Aeneid, and of course up through all of the Renaissance romance epics.

它们被浸泡在整套文学传统中,穿越了从荷马的《奥德赛》上升到,维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》的地下之旅，当然它也经历了所有文艺复兴时期的浪漫史诗。

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