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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... |right|250px|One of the stories in the Gilgamesh epic directly parallels ...
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  • The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. It is prized as one of the few living epics, performed by ...
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  • Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director ...
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  • Ovid and Virgil as one of the major epic poets of his times. to categorize. Although ostensibly an epic, Pharsalia is not a story ...
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  • Atra-Hasis, also spelled Atrahasis, is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero. It contains both a creation myth ...
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  • Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His more subjective approach initiated a break ...
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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh gives the following description of Ishtar's ... ===The Epic of Gilgamesh=== Ishtar makes important appearances in the ...
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  • greatest achievement, The Bridge, is an epic poem written in the grand ... of America." He meant to create an epic poem that, like the poetry ...
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  • The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. It is prized as one of the few living epics, performed by ...
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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... |right|250px|One of the stories in the Gilgamesh epic directly parallels ...
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  • Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings), the national epic of the Persian-speaking world. He spent 35 years writing his great ...
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  • The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of ...
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  • His most important poem, the massive epic The Faerie Queene is intentionally ... to English poetry. The poem, written in the epic form, is a long, dense allegory ...
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  • Shamash is depicted as overcoming darkness and death. In the Epic ... ===Shamash in the Epic of Gilgamesh=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...
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  • father published 50 copies of a juvenile epic, on the Battle of Marathon ... her life to extend her talents into the epic form so as to address ideas ...
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  • the classical, Latin forms of epic poetry. Of a romantic mindset ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote an epic entitled Torquato Tasso, ...
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  • gubernatorial race of 1934, known as EPIC (End Poverty in California ... in the election, and largely abandoned EPIC and politics to return to ...
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  • Aeneid had already been canonized as the national epic of Rome. In response to this, Ovid realized that in order to create an epic of his own he would ...
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  • to live and what to do, in contrast to the epic adventures of his contemporaries. ... Theogony. It is a poem which uses the same epic verse form as his Works and ...
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  • Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the latter an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic. Virgil, along with his ...
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  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 – December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays ...
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  • . He is noted to have written a few sermons, an epic poem on the Redemption (Occupatio) which appears in several books edited by Swoboda, 1900, and ...
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  • the French Revolution and began writing an epic poem Joan of Arc (published ... Chatterton; and he also published two epic poems Thalaba the Destroyer ...
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  • Priam's Troy, validating Homer's epic. Blegen, thus, contributed ... evidence of the historical accuracy of the epic. Additionally, his findings ...
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  • The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried ...
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  • ==In the Epic of Ba'al == [[Image:Baal thunderbolt Louvre AO15775 ... A primary source for our knowledge concerning Yam is the Epic of Baal ...
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  • The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ...
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  • achievements in this field are the national epic Kalevipoeg (Son of Kalev) ... in folklore imitate the epics: The national epic Kalevipoeg was compiled by ...
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  • Artists (1962 - 1965) Musicor (1965 - 1971) Epic (1971 - 1991) MCA Nashville ... together live. Jones followed Wynette to Epic Records, where producer Billy ...
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  • Retrieved April 18, 2022. This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished ... The Epic of Wheat trilogy: * Octopus: A Story of California (1901) ...
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  • of his generation; he openly mocked the epic style of ancient poetry, criticizing ... there are seven hymns and one mini-epic, or epillion, dealing with ...
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  • and Kauravas, described in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. This theory ... The major sources of information about Krishna are the Mahabharata ...
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  • The world's oldest epic poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, evidences ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...
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  • Ancient Greek literature is famous for its epic and lyric poetry as well as ... Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ...
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  • of the Mediterranean were very dangerous and the epic literature of the times reflected this awe and fear of the sea. It is most probable that out of ...
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  • Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or Mesopotamian creation epic, composed probably in the eighteenth century B ...
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  • most popular poem. It is a mock-heroic epic, written to make fun of a ... poem, The Rape of the Lock, is a mock epic. That is, it describes the ...
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  • as the father and king of the gods. In the Epic of Gilgamesh it is to Anu ... Erech) in southern Babylonia. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ishtar appeals ...
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  • Robert MacAndrew Best, Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian ... * Best, Robert MacAndrew. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian ...
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  • Italian and Florentine poet. His greatest work, the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary statement produced in medieval Europe. ...
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  • the author achieved national celebrity. An epic recounting the war between ... Nobel Prize for lifetime achievement as an epic writer. In the acceptance ...
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  • concerned with heroes and villains, epic battles, and great feats of ... depict events of long ago and persons of epic proportion. However, myths ...
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  • works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry, Bible translations ... English poetry. It has achieved national epic status in British literary ...
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  • the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted ...
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  • had a string of incestuous affairs. In the epic Enki and Ninhursag, he and ... In the Sumerian epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, an incantation ...
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  • quot; (the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic, and lyric poetry): All types of narrate events, he argues, but by differing means. He distinguishes ...
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  • * “You Can’t Dance” / “It’s Another Day” (Epic 50458) * “Gimme a Little Sign” / “Something You Can’t Buy” (Epic 50501) ...
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  • century (between 1140 and 1170). The epic poem is the first and most ... date of the first written version of the epic, is that (according to somewhat ...
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  • *In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton made Gabriel chief of ... *In the epic poem The Song of Roland, Gabriel instructs Frankish King ...
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  • popular with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), was said to have influenced John Milton's own ...
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  • reached the Mediterranean Sea after an epic 148 day journey, becoming ... * Bangs, Richard, and Pasquale Scaturro. Mystery of the Nile: The ...
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  • The Nagas make numerous appearances in the great Hindu epic called the Mahabharata, though their depiction tends to be negative, and they are ...
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  • killed their mother. After finishing his epic poem "Endymion," ... earliest major poem was the 1817 pastoral epic Endymion. The poem consists ...
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  • plays a prominent role in the famous Hindu epic, the Ramayana, where, as the ... *Menon, Ramesh. The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian ...
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  • first part of Shokholov's great Don epic (Tikhii Don / Тихий дон ... An epic novel, it is often compared to War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • of these is the EPPIE award, given by EPIC since 2000. [http://www.epicauthors.com/eppies.html The EPPIE Awards], EPIC. Retrieved ...
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  • Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into the nineteenth century. John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud got their first ...
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  • the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, she combines with Apsu (the ... can be seen from the opening lines of the epic where it is said that she ...
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  • scholar, writing political pamphlets, epic poems and odes for his patrons ... his princely patrons in panegyrics and epic poems, to abuse their enemies ...
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  • In 1340 Petrarch published his first large-scale work, Africa; an ... twelve pastoral poems; and the unfinished epic Africa. Petrarch also published ...
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  • credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς ... texts, values, and exceptionalism. All epic poetry in Western literature ...
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  • in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. ... ===Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...
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  • to Leipzig, where he began work on his epic poetic drama Don Carlos about ... the basis of his greatest achievement, the epic drama Wallenstein. ...
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  • do with a bow? Like Inanna in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, ‘Anat complains ... Princess Leia in George Lucas' Star Wars epic film. ...
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  • of what is widely considered the greatest epic poem in the English language ... poet writing in English who attempts the epic genre must contend with the ...
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  • According to the Nagarakertagama (a Javanese language epic poem dating ... Dompo and Sunda. A twentieth century poetic epic, Kakwin Gajah Mada, composed ...
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  • 8 million words in total, it is the longest epic poem in the world (roughly ... According to Mbh. 1.1.50, there were three versions of the epic, beginning ...
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  • In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti ...
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  • Legend places the capital of the Rakshasa King Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana (The Epic of Lord Rama) in Anuradhapura. Legend depicts Rama ...
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  • Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: ...
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  • Sphinx and Bhima, one of the heroes of the epic Mahabharata. ... others depict the battle of minds as an epic, mortal fight. "Sphinx ...
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  • In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ... In December 1761, Macpherson published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem ...
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  • |Label = Epic |Associated_acts = George Jones ... producer Billy Sherrill, who signed her to Epic Records. ...
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  • Its mythical origins are described in Finland's national epic, Kalevala, where the magician Väinämöinen creates the first kantele from ...
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  • the Mahabharata. Many scholars believe the epic has its roots in actual historical ... The sixteenth book of the epic, Mausala Parva, describes the end of ...
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  • surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems, and two shorter poems. ... ====Epic poems==== Kālidāsa is the author of two mahākāvyas, Kumārasambhava ...
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  • On this tour, the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold's ... Byron's masterpiece, often called the epic of its time, has roots deep ...
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  • for example. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz ... Indian Ocean trade. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz ...
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  • Beowulf (c. 700 C.E.) is a heroic epic poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that language ...
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  • of Ithaca and the main hero in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Odysseus ... The Odyssey contains the epic and mythic story of Odysseus' ten ...
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  • ; Immanent Art (1991); Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf and ... Return Song) and areas outside of military epic would come under investigation: ...
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  • The earliest references to Nagaland can be found in the Indian epic Mahābhārata. Several characters from the region, such as Princess Ulupi ...
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  • of non-dramatic poetry (dithyrambic, lyric and epic). Martin Banham ... been dominant. These included the Brechtian Epic theater, Artaud's Theater ...
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  • The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds," are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. The ...
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  • Empedocles is considered the last Greek philosopher to write in an epic verse and the surviving fragments of his teaching are from his two poems ...
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  • Nezāmī Ganjavī, considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic ...
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  • Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...
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  • (1720). Edgar Quinet published his prose epic on the legend in 1833, making ... In Russia, the legend of the Wandering Jew appears in an incomplete ...
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  • style and use it to great effect for his epic work, The Cantos. to the composition of her "feminist epic" Helen in Egypt, a retelling ...
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  • India possesses a large body of heroic ballads and epic poetry preserved ... In the south of India, the Telugu the folk epic, The War of Palnadu ...
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  • composing On the Nature of Things, an epic poem, in six books, designed ... Bracciolini rediscovered Lucretius’ epic, On the Nature of Things, ...
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  • and greatest warrior of Homer's epic poem Iliad, which takes for ... Also, in the fragmentary poems of the Epic Cycle in which we can find ...
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  • also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish in which the ... htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian creation epic)] *[https://www.uniguide ...
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  • Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), an epic poem about the self ... energy. In Paris, Ginsberg finished his epic poem Kaddish, Corso composed ...
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  • in the more narrative-based direction of epic poetry. It is primarily this ... the propaganda needs of the Soviet regime. Epic poems, such as "Vladimir ...
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  • In his late career, his masterpiece, the epic poem Faust, would become so ... and most powerful masterpiece, the epic dramatic poem Faust. Goethe ...
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  • previous measures in Greek poetry had been the epic hexameter, and its offshoot—the elegiac meter—but the slow measured structure of hexameter verse ...
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  • In the ancient Celtic epic The Ulster Cycle, the Morrígan (a Celtic war goddess) is seen in the role of a Bean Nighe. When the hero Cúchulainn ...
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  • in the usual dialect of elegy, Ionic with an epic coloring, were intended partly for public and partly for private monuments. There is strength ...
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  • with his second offering, the multi-volume epic originally titled The October ... has the stamina to produce a magnificent epic of American life." ...
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  • mythic literature like Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Besides their ... of his reign. Art critics indicate that the epic quality of these bas-reliefs ...
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  • Sumerian gods, and the older Sumerian myths and epic tales were piously copied, translated, or adapted. Mesopotamian religion continued its evolution ...
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  • in some art, especially warfare. In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the protagonist princes of ancient Ayodhya, Rama and Laxman, go to the Rishi Vishvamitra ...
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  • in the world. While it is clearly a poetic epic, it contains large tracts ... *Oinas, Felix J. 1978. Heroic epic and saga an introduction to the ...
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  • a character from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Utnapishtim ... * Best, Robert M. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic. Enlil Press ...
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  • Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade (Šahrzād in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a ...
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  • he saved two match points before winning in five epic sets, and an even more impressive 11-9, 6-3, 11-9 victory at the U.S. Championships, an event that ...
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  • characters who appear in the Indian epic Ramayana. In the Indian epic Mahābhārata, the Kuru heir Parikṣit was enthroned ...
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  • Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest ...
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  • often at war with the East Mongols. The Oirat epic song, The Rout of Mongolian Shulum Ubushi Khong Tayiji, tells about the war between the Oirats and ...
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  • [[Image:Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|The Old English epic ... early Germanic languages. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other ...
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  • as well as Rigvedic dialogue hymns and the Indian epic Mahabharata, while in the west, literary historians commonly suppose that Plato (c. 427 B.C.E ...
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  • bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/4872348.stm Epic explorer crosses frozen sea ... * Russell, Dick. Eye of the Whale; Epic Passage From Baja to Siberia ...
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  • ===Epic literature=== Arabic epic literature [[Image:Maler der Geschichte ... is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature along with several ...
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  • period, the lyric, ariel, historical, and epic poem was being developed. ===The English epic=== Even without the introduction of Neo-classical ...
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  • the modern Turkish people—and the Manas epic of the Kyrgyz people. ... It is composed of three basic genres: epic, folk poetry, and folklore. ...
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  • During World War Two, Adams worked on creating epic photographic murals for the United States Department of the Interior. Distressed by the Japanese ...
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  • | Label = Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, ANTI | | Associated_acts = | URL = Official Website | | Notable_instruments ...
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  • of these large-scale compositions on the epic poems of his countryman, poet ... Water Goblin," are based on the epic poems of his countryman, poet ...
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  • his era. His signature song, "El Paso," an epic story of a gunfighter who dies in the arms of the woman for whom he has killed a man, has become ...
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  • * Hei'an Zhuan (Epic of Darkness) is the only collection of legends in epic form preserved by a community of the Han ethnicity of China ...
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  • was also inspired by Griffith's Civil War epic. use of large sets, elaborate costumes, and epic-sized scenes and scenery, ...
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  • Milton, and all the other great epic dramatists of England would ... His other works include the first book of the minor epic Hero and ...
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  • with one of the sections of T.S. Eliot's epic poem Four Quartets, in which Eliot was directly alluding to Ferrar's community and the metaphysical ...
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  • period. Cilappatikaram and its companion epic Manimekalai are Buddhist in ... III. Ramavatharam is the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although ...
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  • creation narrative and that of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, such as the ... this was probably copied from the Akkadian epic, Atra-Hasis, which dates from ...
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  • Though Beethoven wrote important religious music (including the epic Missa Solemnis), it is his groundbreaking Ninth Symphony, of which the finale ...
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  • education, taught him to read Homer's epic poem, the Iliad, in the original Greek. Kenneth Baker.[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ...
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  • Parmenides wrote On Nature, and presented his philosophy in an epic poem written in hexameter verse, the same poetic form as the works of Homer ...
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  • that in Mesopotamian culture depicted an epic battle of gods. The Greeks later renamed the constellation for its depiction of a man riding a ...
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  • * The Epic * “Mariana” ==External links== All links retrieved July 20, 2023. * [http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/tennyson.htm Tennyson's ...
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  • R. Parthasarathy, The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India, – The Cilappatikaram ... * Parthasarathy, R. The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India ...
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  • The monotheistic system of Pasupata, described in the epic Mahabharata, consisted of five main categories: *Karan (Cause), the Lord or pati, the ...
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  • The oldest surviving poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the third ... Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey ...
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  • Warner, football's greatest teacher: the epic autobiography of major college football's winningest coach, Glenn S. (Pop) Warner. ...
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  • knowledge of history. Daniel's verse-epic The Civile Warres, a retelling of The War of the Roses, remains one of the most important documents ...
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  • we can now endorse, it does show the cost of the epic struggle between good and evil that took place during the War Between the States. ...
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  • major characters and heroes of the famous Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. The third of the five Pandava brothers, Arjuna was a master archer who played ...
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  • the Nobel Prize for Literature "for the epic force with which he has traced themes and depicted human destinies drawn from the history of his ...
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  • Theodoric was included into epic poetry as Dietrich von Bern, who ... In the heroic epic the Nibelungenlied (c. 1200), Dietrich is living ...
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  • * Dugard, Martin. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone. NY: Doubleday, 2003. ISBN 0385504519 * Gallop, Alan. "Mr Stanley ...
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  • a shaman. His story is recounted in a very long epic text, Epic of King Gesar, meant to be performed over the course of several days to the accompaniment ...
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  • John Armstrong Crow. The Epic of Latin America. (University of California ... *Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. University of California ...
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  • technique in works such as the epic First Symphony (1969-1972) and First Concerto Grosso (1977), but also composed more stylistically unified ...
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  • Shaahnaameh, or Şahname) is a long epic poem written by the Persian ... and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic. Joobin Bekhrad, [https://www ...
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  • level. His Test batting average of 58.45, over an epic twenty years and 85 tests, presently stands eighth in the all-time list. Hammond's 336 ...
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  • They have made opera, a typically dense and epic form of entertainment, available ... and singing. Operas usually emphasize an epic, grand style, with more emphasis ...
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  • The Pandora myth first appears in lines 560-612 of Hesiod's epic poem, the Theogony (ca. eighth-seventh centuries B.C.E.). After humans ...
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  • Male Madeshwara: a Kannada oral epic, as sung by Hebbani Madayya ... Male Madeshwara: a Kannada oral epic, as sung by Hebbani Madayya ...
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  • by the sage Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata epic. In Sanskrit, Vyasa means "Divider," and some scholars have interpreted this to mean ...
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  • Traditional epic poetry included improvisational moments where the reciter flattered the audience (especially the authorities) or substituted ...
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  • the title of Langland's Middle English epic. It is written in unrhymed ... more an instructional poem rather than an epic story in the vein of Dante ...
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  • Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic ...
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  • took by siege. Alexander fought an epic battle against the Indian monarch Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes (326). After that victory, Alexander ...
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  • in terms of sacrifice, it was during the Epic period that concepts of tapas ... in epic literature is known by many names, including Pārvatī ...
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  • ===The Epic Period=== Between 400 B.C.E. and 400 C.E. came the age ... The great Tamil epic, Silappatikaram (c. 100 C.E.) was one of several ...
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  • Apsaras appear in important supporting roles. The epic contains several lists of the principal Apsaras, which lists are not always identical. One such ...
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  • clockwise-sequenced reliefs (sequence of epic scenes) on the outside temple ... Ramayana and Mahabharata in temple art. The epic frieze constitutes the most ...
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  • death of Ubasi Khun Tayishi around 1627. The Oirat epic song, "The Rout of Mongolian Shulum Ubushi Khong Tayiji," tells about the war between ...
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  • Nagarakertagama is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit ... the Majapahit capital from the Old Javanese epic poem Nagarakertagama). ...
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  • oldest known literary sources, Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey ... mythical tradition are Homer's two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey ...
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  • Gal Beckerman, When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic ... * Beckerman, Gal. When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic ...
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  • indeed, his work has been styled the "Epic of Despotism." He does not hesitate to avow his admiration of Ivan the Terrible, and considers ...
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  • The text known as "Epic of the King of the Battle" depicts Sargon advancing deep into the heart of Asia Minor to protect merchants ...
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  • John M. Barry. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest ... * Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest ...
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  • Aristotle, in Poetics, contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic ... the Neoteric poets who had turned away from epic poetry to more personal themes ...
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  • over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction. == History == Shklovsky introduced the concept of defamiliarization ...
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  • second-ranking of the many fallen cherubim in his epic poem, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. Milton wrote of Beelzebub: "Than whom, Satan ...
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  • from adherence to any particular Hindu epic and distinguishing it from ... moving in time to the music, recreate the epic and bring the words to life ...
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  • after its publication, Harry's epic poem, ‘The Wallace’ was ... century minstrel Blind Harry's epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of ...
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  • based on 'The Song of Hiawatha', an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.)]] Hiawatha (also known as Hienwentha, Ayonwatha ...
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  • His works include the acclaimed Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990). He spent ... Walcott's epic book-length poem Omeros was published in 1990 ...
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  • and the queens Kunti and Madri) in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in India; a number ...
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  • and the Cyclopes from Tartarus. This incited an epic war called the Titanomachy, wherein Zeus and his siblings, with the help of the Gigantes, Hecatonchires ...
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  • Igor de Rachewiltz, The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian ... * de Rachewiltz, Igor. The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian ...
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  • Aside from its treatment of unnamed rank-and-file rakshasas, the epic tells the stories of certain members of the race who rose to prominence ...
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  • instance, this stone is repeatedly mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Bull of Heaven's horns were said to be composed of lapis lazuli. ...
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  • pots, and even in large carvings and statues, the epic defeat of Medusa by Perseus has been depicted, usually in celebration of Perseus' triumph ...
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  • (1928), was a silent revolutionary epic, Dovzhenko's initial film in his "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Arsenal and Earth). It ...
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  • on Alexander Pushkin's Russian epic novel in verse, Eugene Onegin ... * (1960) The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century ...
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  • in Sancho's murder, According to the epic of El Cid the Castilian nobility ... The famous Spanish epic, Poema de Mio Cid “presented its hero,” ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Orion was both a great hunter, who met Ulysses in the underworld, and also a constellation amongst the stars. His story is ...
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  • that of Argentina and Uruguay. The epic poem Martín Fierro by José Hernández used the gaucho as a symbol of Argentine national tradition, ...
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  • dramatic moments from her own life, to write her epic novel, typing it out on an old Remington typewriter. She originally called her heroine "Pansy ...
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  • to Sumerian records in the Gilgamesh epic, some of the cities of the valley survived the flood. Woolley’s discovery was soon connected to other ...
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  • " As a poet he attempted to revive the old epic, adapting it to a Christian subject, in "Saint-Paulin" (1686). As a long time public ...
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  • company's most famous advertisement featured an epic painting by Emanuel Leutze with the slogan, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way ...
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  • from the Great Flood that Enlil had designed. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enlil sets out to eliminate humanity, whose overpopulation and resultant mating ...
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  • *McCullough, David. G. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0743217378 ...
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  • Ethics. It is the theme of the Hindu epic Bhagavad Gita, in which the Sanskrit word karma epitomizes personal action. It has nearly always been ...
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  • The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians ... The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians ...
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  • influence on the work of a number of epic poets, including Virgil, John Milton, Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth. The sustained energy of ...
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  • Egils Saga is an epic Icelandic saga, generally attributed to Sturluson and generally considered his masterpiece. It is estimated that he may ...
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  • The Battle was the subject of an epic poetry by John Galt. John Galt, 1992, The battle of Largs. Cambridge, UK: Chadwyck-Healey. ==Viking festival ...
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  • Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Harvard University Press ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...
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  • a brief collaboration with Pound on T.S. Eliot’s epic poem The Waste Land, which he derided as baroque and obscure. Eliot's poem, despite its ...
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  • Drive-By Truckers chronicled such an event in his epic ballad Decoration Day. ==Notes== ==References== *Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil ...
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  • line up and pay fifty cents to view his work. The epic size of the landscapes in these paintings reminded Americans of the vast, untamed, but magnificent ...
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  • the recommendation of Ford, was in the 1930 epic Western, The Big Trail. It ... Wayne's The Alamo: The Making of the Epic Film. Carol Publishing Group ...
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  • *Meacham, Jon. Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. New York: Random House Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0812972825 ...
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  • as described in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer ... Another view is that Homer was heir to an unbroken tradition of epic ...
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  • quot;The Lake of the Deeds of Rama"), an epic devoted to Lord Rama. This Awadhi version of Ramayana, like many translations of the original Sanskrit ...
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  • The book is the progenitor of the modern disaster epic in literature and film-making, where a single disaster intertwines the victims, whose lives are ...
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  • both the starting and ending point of this epic journey. A statue of Xuánzàng ... Hindu monkey god from the ancient Ramayana epic. Elements of the Monkey legend ...
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  • Mansions were parts of a planned "dramatic epic" spanning 11 plays that would follow the life and times of a Boston family from the early 1800s ...
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  • son of a disciple of Madhva, wrote an epic poem, "Sumadhva Vijaya," on his life. Madhvacharya's theology influenced those of later ...
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  • * George, Andrew (trans.). The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN 978-0140449198 * Mellor, Ronald, and Amanda H. Podany. The World ...
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  • games. Developers such as id, Valve, Crytek, Epic, and Blizzard Entertainment ship their games with the very development tools used to make the game ...
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  • Tibetan literature outside of Tibet are the epic stories, particularly the ... vibrations and high pitches. There are also epic bards who sing of Tibet's ...
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  • Persia's late tenth century national epic by Ferdowsi) The Shāh Nãma, The Epic of the Kings, translated by Reuben Levy ...
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  • name is also mentioned in the Gilgamesh epic, and who may have been king ... ancient Sumerian flood myth, similar to the Epic of Gilgamesh suggests that ...
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  • *Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh ====The Trickster==== ... Archetypes are often discussed in literature. The epic poem Beowulf ...
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  • (1925) and Mikhail Sholokhov's two volume epic, And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) and The Don Flows Home to Sea (1940). Although much socialist ...
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  • popular at the time of Christ. The Epic of Gilgamesh includes such a scene, and it appears also in the Odyssey. Writing shortly before the birth ...
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  • and soothing sound, and the band's epic, lengthy compositions reached ... on Meddle (1971), with the 23-minute epic "Echoes" taking ...
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  • Janas later coalesced into the Janapadas of the Epic Age. ... In the Indian Hindu epic Mahabharata, Draupadi (wife of the five Pandava ...
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  • in the making of both spiritual and epic art. Because of the film's religious themes and political ambiguity, it was unreleased in the atheistic ...
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  • * The Epic of Mount Everest, London: E. Arnold, 1926, republished Bel Air, CA: Hesperides Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1406703818 * The Light of Experience ...
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  • * Stiles, T.J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Knopf, 2009. ISBN 978-0375415425 * Vanderbilt, Arthur T. II. Fortune& ...
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  • * The Bridal Canopy (1931), an epic describing Galician Judaism at the start of the nineteenth century. (Translated) * Of Such and Of Such, (Translated ...
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  • , 35 mm (professional) and 65 mm (epic photography, rarely used except ... markets in recent decades. Certain "epic" or adventure movies ...
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  • The two scientists embarked on another epic investigation into uric acid and its derivatives and metabolites, publishing their results in 1837 ...
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  • *Younghusband, Francis. The Epic of Mount Everest. Hesperides Press, 2006. ISBN 1406703818 :The expedition that inadvertently coined the term ...
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  • *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN 0674091760 *Dever, William G. Did God ...
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  • Prufrock," The Waste Land, and the epic Four Quartets, are considered ... influence Eliot's later, religious epic poems—most notably the Four ...
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  • to the north, and the Bulala to the east. One epic poem extols Aluma's victories in 330 wars and more than 1,000 battles. His military innovations ...
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  • was completed. In commending the Samanids, the epic Persian poet Ferdowsi says of them: کجا آن بزرگان ساسانیان ...
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  • returned to the Senate in 1845, participating in the epic Senate struggle over the expansion of slavery in the Western states that produced the Compromise ...
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  • addition to small lyrical pieces contains the epic "Roland;" three years later he published another book of poetry, "Gedichte" (Berlin ...
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  • book of war poetry Battle Pieces, and his epic religious poem Clarel. During ... the tastes of his readers, Melville's epic length verse-narrative Clarel ...
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  • Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Harvard University ... * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...
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  • *Leepson, Marc. Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built. University of Virginia Press, ...
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  • heavy losses inflicted by the Ottomans in the epic Battle of Kosovo, the Serbian Empire had dissolved into many statelets by the beginning of the fifteenth ...
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  • with a Nobel Prize for Literature, "for an epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature." ...
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  • Edward Robb Ellis. The Epic of New York City. (Carroll & Graf ... * Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City. Carroll & Graf ...
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  • Great Flood described in its text. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.E.) also describes a great flood, as does the later record of Berossus ...
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  • they recollect their past encounters, so that epic battles and milestones, such as the Fall of Granada, are written large while incidents of convivencia ...
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  • Although Goldsmith has become something of a legend because of his epic incompetence (this was a man who once failed to emigrate to America because ...
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  • Vishnu. Its reference can be found in the Hindu epic Ramayana. In China, the phoenix is called Feng-huang and symbolizes completeness, incorporating ...
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  • *Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History ... *Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic ...
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  • In her memoirs, first published in the West, she gives an epic analysis of her life and criticizes the moral and cultural degradation of the ...
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  • into wild geese and undertake an epic flight, all the way from Upper ... * Olson-Buckner, Elsa. The Epic Tradition in Gösta Berlings Saga ...
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  • deeds is told in the first book of the great epic Mahabharata. Mahabharata, Book I: Adi Parva, Sections 23 ff. His father was the creator-rishi ...
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  • One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, in twelve books ... in the forms of dialectic, dialogues, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics ...
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  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 c.e.), wrote three epic poems (known collectively as the Divine Comedy) titled Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In his ...
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  • speeds, fragmentation can occur in epic proportions and travel for extensive distances. When the S.S. Grandcamp exploded in the Texas City Disaster ...
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  • music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson's second Epic label release Thriller, which went on to become the best-selling album of all time. Jackson ...
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