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Laodamia (Wordsworth)

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Laodamia (1815, 1845) is a narrative poem by William Wordsworth based on a story from the Trojan War. [1]

11 relations: Ancient Greece, Edward Dowden, Hades, Hector, Hermes, Narrative poetry, Ode to Duty, Protesilaus, Trojan War, Virgil, William Wordsworth.

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden (3 May 1843 – 4 April 1913), was an Irish critic and poet.

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Hades

Hades (ᾍδης Háidēs) was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld, which eventually took his name.

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Hector

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Hector (Ἕκτωρ Hektōr) was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.

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Hermes

Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, and the second youngest of the Olympian gods (Dionysus being the youngest).

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Narrative poetry

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.

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Ode to Duty

Ode to Duty (written in 1805; published in 1807) is a poem (an ode) written by William Wordsworth.

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Protesilaus

In Greek mythology, Protesilaus (Πρωτεσίλᾱος, Prōtesilāos) was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated at cult sites in Thessaly and Thrace.

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Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laodamia_(Wordsworth)

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