There are several epic works that Milton used as his source for Paradise Lost, the most important of which are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Apart from those works, he also found inspiration in Virgil's Aeneid, as well as Dante's Divine Comedy.
His greatest inspiration is obviously The Bible, but that doesn't belong to epic narratives.
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The apple was eaten by whom ?
The key words are the words that make the sentence importantly. In the sentence given above, the key words are male which is the subject of the sentence, serve which is the verb and assembly which is the direct object. Answers are male, serve and assembly.
