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One ship alone, one deep-sea craft sailed clear, the Argo, sung by the world, when heading home from Aeetes's shores. And she would have crashed against those giant rocks and sunk at once if Hera, for love of Jason, had not sped her through. This is an example of which epic convention? lengthy speech digression epic simile divine intervention

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Divine Intervention, is it not?
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Answer: Divine intervention.

Step-by-step explanation: Epic conventions are formal characteristics that epic poems generally share in common. Divine intervention is the involvement of a deity in the affairs of humans, in other words, it is a miracle or act of god (or gods) that causes something good to happen or stops something bad from happening. In the given excerpt we can see an example of divine intervention when Hera (Goddess of women, family and marriage) stopped the craft to crash.

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