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Epic

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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
376 words

Several types of epic flourished in the late Roman period: (1) patria, or histories of cities such as Tarsos ...

Epic Poetry

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Military History, Social sciences, Warfare and Defence
Length:
1,098 words

Poems intended for oral performance in which the deeds of a great hero are narrated in elevated style have existed ...

Epic

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
604 words

The term traditionally applies to long narrative poems on historical or legendary events of defining significance for the national, ethnic, ...

Epic Poetry

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
1,202 words

Epic poetry, while broadly covering long heroic poems which recount legendary or historical narratives of national importance, has in fact ...

epic

epic   Quick reference

World Encyclopedia

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
61 words

Long, narrative poem in grandiose style. The earliest known form of Greek literature, epics were originally used to transmit history ...

epic

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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945), Literature
Length:
556 words

a heroic narrative, adapting or constructing a public *mythology [36] in and for a specific culture, which reflected the rise ...

Epic literature

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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
490 words
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1

Cradle of all literature, epic allows a community to place itself in relation to its cultural or mythical origin; rediscovering, ...

epic

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Hardie Philip Russell

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
Classical studies, History
Length:
599 words

The purely metrical ancient definition of epic, or ἔπος, ἔπη (lit. ‘word’, ‘words’), as verse in successive hexameters includes such works as ...

epic

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
Length:
728 words
An epic is a long narrative poem, usually distinguished from the ballad by its greater length and by the use of stichic rather than stanzaic verse. The history of epic in the Renaissance ... More
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Language reference, History of English, Literature, Literary theory and cultural studies
Length:
44 words
a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation. The word comes via Latin ... More

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