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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 ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- 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 ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
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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 ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- Ovid and Virgil as one of the major epic poets of his times. to categorize. Although ostensibly an epic, Pharsalia is not a story ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His more subjective approach initiated a break ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 11:03, 11 April 2024
- The Epic of Gilgamesh gives the following description of Ishtar's ... ===The Epic of Gilgamesh=== Ishtar makes important appearances in the ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- 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 ...7 KB (1,109 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... |right|250px|One of the stories in the Gilgamesh epic directly parallels ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Shamash is depicted as overcoming darkness and death. In the Epic ... ===Shamash in the Epic of Gilgamesh=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- the classical, Latin forms of epic poetry. Of a romantic mindset ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote an epic entitled Torquato Tasso, ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- gubernatorial race of 1934, known as EPIC (End Poverty in California ... in the election, and largely abandoned EPIC and politics to return to ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 – December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 11:01, 11 April 2024
- . 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 ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- the French Revolution and began writing an epic poem Joan of Arc (published ... Chatterton; and he also published two epic poems Thalaba the Destroyer ...13 KB (2,061 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- Priam's Troy, validating Homer's epic. Blegen, thus, contributed ... evidence of the historical accuracy of the epic. Additionally, his findings ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- ==In the Epic of Ba'al == [[Image:Baal thunderbolt Louvre AO15775 ... A primary source for our knowledge concerning Yam is the Epic of Baal ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- achievements in this field are the national epic Kalevipoeg (Son of Kalev) ... in folklore imitate the epics: The national epic Kalevipoeg was compiled by ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
- Artists (1962 - 1965) Musicor (1965 - 1971) Epic (1971 - 1991) MCA Nashville ... together live. Jones followed Wynette to Epic Records, where producer Billy ...25 KB (3,678 words) - 17:03, 20 May 2024
- Retrieved April 18, 2022. This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished ... The Epic of Wheat trilogy: * Octopus: A Story of California (1901) ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 05:06, 9 April 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- and Kauravas, described in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. This theory ... The major sources of information about Krishna are the Mahabharata ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- The world's oldest epic poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, evidences ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- 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 ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- 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 ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or Mesopotamian creation epic, composed probably in the eighteenth century B ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Robert MacAndrew Best, Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian ... * Best, Robert MacAndrew. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Italian and Florentine poet. His greatest work, the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary statement produced in medieval Europe. ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- the author achieved national celebrity. An epic recounting the war between ... Nobel Prize for lifetime achievement as an epic writer. In the acceptance ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- concerned with heroes and villains, epic battles, and great feats of ... depict events of long ago and persons of epic proportion. However, myths ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry, Bible translations ... English poetry. It has achieved national epic status in British literary ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- quot; (the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic, and lyric poetry): All types of narrate events, he argues, but by differing means. He distinguishes ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- * “You Can’t Dance” / “It’s Another Day” (Epic 50458) * “Gimme a Little Sign” / “Something You Can’t Buy” (Epic 50501) ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- *In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton made Gabriel chief of ... *In the epic poem The Song of Roland, Gabriel instructs Frankish King ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- popular with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), was said to have influenced John Milton's own ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- reached the Mediterranean Sea after an epic 148 day journey, becoming ... * Bangs, Richard, and Pasquale Scaturro. Mystery of the Nile: The ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- The Nagas make numerous appearances in the great Hindu epic called the Mahabharata, though their depiction tends to be negative, and they are ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
