poets. Parnassus, having become the symbolic dwelling of poets, is ultimately equated to<hr>
the group of poets, and then to poetry itself.<hr>
        Epic poems are poems that recount heroic adventures.<hr>
        Elegies are short lyrical poems on a subject that is often tender and sad.<hr>
        Odes are lyrical poems meant to be accompanied by music.<hr>
        Satires are writings, statements or works in which someone or something is mocked or sharply criticized.<hr>
        Originally, an epigram is an inscription, first in prose, then in verse, engraved on monuments, statues, tombs, and trophies, to perpetuate the memory<hr>
of a hero or an event.<hr>
        Tragedy is a theatrical genre whose origin dates back to ancient Greek theatre.<hr>
        Agamemnon is a Greek hero and a king of Mycenae, a Greek city north of the plains<hr>
of Argos. He assumes the command of the Achaean army during the Trojan War.<hr>
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                    Seventeenth Speech - Clelia to Porsenna<hr>
                                             Clelia, Roman girl<hr>
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                                              Context<hr>
        When the Romans made peace with Porsenna, they sent their daughters as hostages<hr>
to guarantee the agreement. However, one of them, named Clelia, thinking that their modesty<hr>
was not safe among so many soldiers, encouraged her companions to preserve their life<hr>
rather than their honor. They all agreed and, with incredible audacity, they<hr>
decided to swim across the Tiber. Their initiative was successful, and they<hr>
all arrived safe and sound in Rome under the command of Clelia. Their parents<hr>
admired this remarkable boldness. Nevertheless, because of the Romans’ sternness, they could not<hr>
tolerate such a public violation of the agreement, and thus sent them back to this king for him<hr>
to punish them if he wished. When they presented themselves to him, he asked them who<hr>
among them had proposed such an audacious escape. Thinking that he was asking this in order to<hr>
punish her, none wanted to answer. That's when Clelia, bold, spoke up and addressed him<hr>
with roughly these words.<hr>
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