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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
Poems intended for oral performance in which the deeds of a great hero are narrated in elevated style have existed
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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature
The term traditionally applies to long narrative poems on historical or legendary events of defining significance for the national, ethnic,
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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
Epic poetry, while broadly covering long heroic poems which recount legendary or historical narratives of national importance, has in fact
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World Encyclopedia
Long, narrative poem in grandiose style. The earliest known form of Greek literature, epics were originally used to transmit history
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
a heroic narrative, adapting or constructing a public *mythology [36] in and for a specific culture, which reflected the rise
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Cradle of all literature, epic allows a community to place itself in relation to its cultural or mythical origin; rediscovering,
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Alexander Kazhdan
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Several types of epic flourished in the late Roman period: (1) patria, or histories of cities such as Tarsos, Berytus, and Nicaea; ...
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Hardie Philip Russell
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
The purely metrical ancient definition of epic, or ἔπος, ἔπη (lit. ‘word’, ‘words’), as verse in successive hexameters includes such works as ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
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