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The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Waugh's Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan

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The Connection Between St. Augustine's Confessions and Evelyn Wall's Brides

The Iliad was only about that last sort of epic confrontation between Agamemnon and Achilles. And then what we have in the Odyssey is the wandering of Odysseus himself and the eventual homecoming. There's more concern with the female and female relationships in the Odyssey than there is in the Iliad, even though Brisius and Helen do feature in theIliad.

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