Examine the relation of a work of literature/narrative from your perspective as a reader who has just finished studying the Odyssey and Aeneid. How does this perspective affect your reading (or, quite likely re-reading) and response to the work that you have chosen?
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Imagine yourself as a novelist/dramatist: Outline the elements of a work that you would create one that, when complete, would reflect the twin processes of imitatio/aemulatio with specific relation to a theme of heroic action.