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The 17 pages that link to Dactylic hexameter, each with the reason it gives.

• HomerRelated: This meter organizes the verse of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

• Epic poetryRelated: Ancient Greek and Latin epics used this meter for extended oral composition.

• VirgilNarrower topic: Virgil composed all three major works in this meter, adapting its rhythms to Latin.

• OdysseyRelated: The Odyssey’s verse follows the meter used by Greek epic poetry.

• AeneidRelated: Virgil composed the Aeneid in the traditional meter of epic.

• HoraceRelated: Horace used this meter in his satires and verse epistles.

• IliadRelated: Its recurring rhythm is the Iliad’s original poetic form.

• Oral-formulaic compositionRelated: Its metrical structure helps explain why formulas recur in particular positions in Homeric verse.

• HesiodRelated: Hesiod composed his surviving poems in the traditional meter of Greek epic.

• Homeric questionRelated: Its patterns help explain the formulas that support oral composition.

• Poetic meterBroader topic: This quantitative meter shaped ancient epic verse through long and short syllables.

• Homeric epicsRelated: Both poems use this meter, whose rhythm shaped their oral performance.

• Epic simileRelated: Homeric and Virgilian epic similes unfold within the verse form’s rhythmic line.

• EnniusRelated: Ennius used this Greek epic meter to shape Latin verse.

• Old LatinRelated: Ennius adapted this Greek meter for Latin epic, replacing the older Saturnian verse.

• De rerum naturaRelated: The poem’s Latin verse gives Epicurean argument the form of epic.

• Apollonius of RhodesRelated: Apollonius tells his epic in the traditional meter of Greek heroic poetry.