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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
- killed their mother. After finishing his epic poem "Endymion," ... earliest major poem was the 1817 pastoral epic Endymion. The poem consists ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 06:06, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 19:05, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 04:04, 25 March 2023
- of these is the EPPIE award, given by EPIC since 2000. [http://www.epicauthors.com/eppies.html The EPPIE Awards], EPIC. Retrieved ...12 KB (1,743 words) - 21:37, 25 September 2020
- Epic poetry in Latin continued to be written and circulated well into the nineteenth century. John Milton and even Arthur Rimbaud got their first ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- scholar, writing political pamphlets, epic poems and odes for his patrons ... his princely patrons in panegyrics and epic poems, to abuse their enemies ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- In 1340 Petrarch published his first large-scale work, Africa; an ... twelve pastoral poems; and the unfinished epic Africa. Petrarch also published ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 01:38, 24 November 2022
- credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad (Ἰλιάς ... texts, values, and exceptionalism. All epic poetry in Western literature ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- in Greek mythology, and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh. ... ===Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- to Leipzig, where he began work on his epic poetic drama Don Carlos about ... the basis of his greatest achievement, the epic drama Wallenstein. ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- do with a bow? Like Inanna in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, ‘Anat complains ... Princess Leia in George Lucas' Star Wars epic film. ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- According to the Nagarakertagama (a Javanese language epic poem dating ... Dompo and Sunda. A twentieth century poetic epic, Kakwin Gajah Mada, composed ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...33 KB (5,198 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti ...37 KB (6,200 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- Legend places the capital of the Rakshasa King Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana (The Epic of Lord Rama) in Anuradhapura. Legend depicts Rama ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- Sphinx and Bhima, one of the heroes of the epic Mahabharata. ... others depict the battle of minds as an epic, mortal fight. "Sphinx ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject ... In December 1761, Macpherson published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem ...12 KB (1,859 words) - 16:03, 8 February 2023
- |Label = Epic |Associated_acts = George Jones ... producer Billy Sherrill, who signed her to Epic Records. ...18 KB (2,712 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- Its mythical origins are described in Finland's national epic, Kalevala, where the magician Väinämöinen creates the first kantele from ...6 KB (959 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems, and two shorter poems. ... ====Epic poems==== Kālidāsa is the author of two mahākāvyas, Kumārasambhava ...29 KB (4,367 words) - 18:38, 26 January 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- for example. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz ... Indian Ocean trade. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- ; Immanent Art (1991); Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf and ... Return Song) and areas outside of military epic would come under investigation: ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- The earliest references to Nagaland can be found in the Indian epic Mahābhārata. Several characters from the region, such as Princess Ulupi ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- of non-dramatic poetry (dithyrambic, lyric and epic). Martin Banham ... been dominant. These included the Brechtian Epic theater, Artaud's Theater ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds," are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. The ...21 KB (3,315 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,150 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- Nezāmī Ganjavī, considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- (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 ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- 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 ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- composing On the Nature of Things, an epic poem, in six books, designed ... Bracciolini rediscovered Lucretius’ epic, On the Nature of Things, ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish in which the ... htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian creation epic)] *[https://www.uniguide ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), an epic poem about the self ... energy. In Paris, Ginsberg finished his epic poem Kaddish, Corso composed ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- In his late career, his masterpiece, the epic poem Faust, would become so ... and most powerful masterpiece, the epic dramatic poem Faust. Goethe ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- previous measures in Greek poetry had been the epic hexameter, and its offshoot—the elegiac meter—but the slow measured structure of hexameter verse ...8 KB (1,240 words) - 06:18, 12 August 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 07:29, 20 September 2023
- in the usual dialect of elegy, Ionic with an epic coloring, were intended partly for public and partly for private monuments. There is strength ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- with his second offering, the multi-volume epic originally titled The October ... has the stamina to produce a magnificent epic of American life." ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- Sumerian gods, and the older Sumerian myths and epic tales were piously copied, translated, or adapted. Mesopotamian religion continued its evolution ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- in some art, especially warfare. In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the protagonist princes of ancient Ayodhya, Rama and Laxman, go to the Rishi Vishvamitra ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- a character from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Utnapishtim ... * Best, Robert M. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic. Enlil Press ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade (Šahrzād in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,243 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- characters who appear in the Indian epic Ramayana. In the Indian epic Mahābhārata, the Kuru heir Parikṣit was enthroned ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|The Old English epic ... early Germanic languages. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- ===Epic literature=== Arabic epic literature [[Image:Maler der Geschichte ... is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature along with several ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- period, the lyric, ariel, historical, and epic poem was being developed. ===The English epic=== Even without the introduction of Neo-classical ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- the modern Turkish people—and the Manas epic of the Kyrgyz people. ... It is composed of three basic genres: epic, folk poetry, and folklore. ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- During World War Two, Adams worked on creating epic photographic murals for the United States Department of the Interior. Distressed by the Japanese ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- | Label = Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, ANTI | | Associated_acts = | URL = Official Website | | Notable_instruments ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- 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 ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- * 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 ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- was also inspired by Griffith's Civil War epic. use of large sets, elaborate costumes, and epic-sized scenes and scenery, ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- Milton, and all the other great epic dramatists of England would ... His other works include the first book of the minor epic Hero and ...25 KB (3,850 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,501 words) - 16:52, 20 May 2024
- period. Cilappatikaram and its companion epic Manimekalai are Buddhist in ... III. Ramavatharam is the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although ...33 KB (4,960 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Though Beethoven wrote important religious music (including the epic Missa Solemnis), it is his groundbreaking Ninth Symphony, of which the finale ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- that in Mesopotamian culture depicted an epic battle of gods. The Greeks later renamed the constellation for its depiction of a man riding a ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- * The Epic * “Mariana” ==External links== All links retrieved July 20, 2023. * [http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/tennyson.htm Tennyson's ...9 KB (1,502 words) - 16:53, 20 July 2023
- 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 ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 03:28, 23 December 2022
- The monotheistic system of Pasupata, described in the epic Mahabharata, consisted of five main categories: *Karan (Cause), the Lord or pati, the ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 19:20, 23 June 2020
- The oldest surviving poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the third ... Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- Warner, football's greatest teacher: the epic autobiography of major college football's winningest coach, Glenn S. (Pop) Warner. ...11 KB (1,567 words) - 09:23, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 02:58, 23 December 2022
- 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. ...9 KB (1,541 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,256 words) - 22:46, 9 March 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- Theodoric was included into epic poetry as Dietrich von Bern, who ... In the heroic epic the Nibelungenlied (c. 1200), Dietrich is living ...20 KB (2,964 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- * Dugard, Martin. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone. NY: Doubleday, 2003. ISBN 0385504519 * Gallop, Alan. "Mr Stanley ...9 KB (1,315 words) - 23:07, 8 February 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- John Armstrong Crow. The Epic of Latin America. (University of California ... *Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. University of California ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2023
- technique in works such as the epic First Symphony (1969-1972) and First Concerto Grosso (1977), but also composed more stylistically unified ...10 KB (1,316 words) - 18:06, 20 July 2023
- Shaahnaameh, or Şahname) is a long epic poem written by the Persian ... and Uzbekistan celebrate this national epic. Joobin Bekhrad, [https://www ...59 KB (8,437 words) - 22:06, 30 March 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,521 words) - 22:26, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,287 words) - 06:35, 18 November 2022
- Male Madeshwara: a Kannada oral epic, as sung by Hebbani Madayya ... Male Madeshwara: a Kannada oral epic, as sung by Hebbani Madayya ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- by the sage Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata epic. In Sanskrit, Vyasa means "Divider," and some scholars have interpreted this to mean ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- Traditional epic poetry included improvisational moments where the reciter flattered the audience (especially the authorities) or substituted ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- took by siege. Alexander fought an epic battle against the Indian monarch Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes (326). After that victory, Alexander ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- in terms of sacrifice, it was during the Epic period that concepts of tapas ... in epic literature is known by many names, including Pārvatī ...43 KB (6,555 words) - 20:31, 21 April 2021
- ===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 ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- Apsaras appear in important supporting roles. The epic contains several lists of the principal Apsaras, which lists are not always identical. One such ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- clockwise-sequenced reliefs (sequence of epic scenes) on the outside temple ... Ramayana and Mahabharata in temple art. The epic frieze constitutes the most ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- death of Ubasi Khun Tayishi around 1627. The Oirat epic song, "The Rout of Mongolian Shulum Ubushi Khong Tayiji," tells about the war between ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
- Nagarakertagama is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit ... the Majapahit capital from the Old Javanese epic poem Nagarakertagama). ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- indeed, his work has been styled the "Epic of Despotism." He does not hesitate to avow his admiration of Ivan the Terrible, and considers ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- The text known as "Epic of the King of the Battle" depicts Sargon advancing deep into the heart of Asia Minor to protect merchants ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- John M. Barry. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest ... * Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- Aristotle, in Poetics, contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic ... the Neoteric poets who had turned away from epic poetry to more personal themes ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction. == History == Shklovsky introduced the concept of defamiliarization ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2020
- second-ranking of the many fallen cherubim in his epic poem, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. Milton wrote of Beelzebub: "Than whom, Satan ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- after its publication, Harry's epic poem, ‘The Wallace’ was ... century minstrel Blind Harry's epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- based on 'The Song of Hiawatha', an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.)]] Hiawatha (also known as Hienwentha, Ayonwatha ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 23:04, 12 February 2022
- His works include the acclaimed Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990). He spent ... Walcott's epic book-length poem Omeros was published in 1990 ...47 KB (6,423 words) - 09:51, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- Igor de Rachewiltz, The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian ... * de Rachewiltz, Igor. The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 21:26, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 00:11, 8 December 2022
- 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. ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- pots, and even in large carvings and statues, the epic defeat of Medusa by Perseus has been depicted, usually in celebration of Perseus' triumph ...11 KB (1,834 words) - 04:53, 26 December 2022
- (1928), was a silent revolutionary epic, Dovzhenko's initial film in his "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Arsenal and Earth). It ...12 KB (1,532 words) - 00:07, 18 November 2022
- on Alexander Pushkin's Russian epic novel in verse, Eugene Onegin ... * (1960) The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- 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,” ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- that of Argentina and Uruguay. The epic poem Martín Fierro by José Hernández used the gaucho as a symbol of Argentine national tradition, ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- " 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 ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- company's most famous advertisement featured an epic painting by Emanuel Leutze with the slogan, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- from the Great Flood that Enlil had designed. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enlil sets out to eliminate humanity, whose overpopulation and resultant mating ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- *McCullough, David. G. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0743217378 ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 05:40, 15 June 2023
- 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 ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- influence on the work of a number of epic poets, including Virgil, John Milton, Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth. The sustained energy of ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- Egils Saga is an epic Icelandic saga, generally attributed to Sturluson and generally considered his masterpiece. It is estimated that he may ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Harvard University Press ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- Drive-By Truckers chronicled such an event in his epic ballad Decoration Day. ==Notes== ==References== *Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- 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 ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- *Meacham, Jon. Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. New York: Random House Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0812972825 ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (4,181 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:42, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 04:15, 23 March 2024
- son of a disciple of Madhva, wrote an epic poem, "Sumadhva Vijaya," on his life. Madhvacharya's theology influenced those of later ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- * George, Andrew (trans.). The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN 978-0140449198 * Mellor, Ronald, and Amanda H. Podany. The World ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- games. Developers such as id, Valve, Crytek, Epic, and Blizzard Entertainment ship their games with the very development tools used to make the game ...26 KB (4,049 words) - 20:12, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- Persia's late tenth century national epic by Ferdowsi) The Shāh Nãma, The Epic of the Kings, translated by Reuben Levy ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- *Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh ====The Trickster==== ... Archetypes are often discussed in literature. The epic poem Beowulf ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- (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 ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:49, 30 January 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- and soothing sound, and the band's epic, lengthy compositions reached ... on Meddle (1971), with the 23-minute epic "Echoes" taking ...51 KB (7,954 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- Janas later coalesced into the Janapadas of the Epic Age. ... In the Indian Hindu epic Mahabharata, Draupadi (wife of the five Pandava ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- * The Epic of Mount Everest, London: E. Arnold, 1926, republished Bel Air, CA: Hesperides Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1406703818 * The Light of Experience ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- * Stiles, T.J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Knopf, 2009. ISBN 978-0375415425 * Vanderbilt, Arthur T. II. Fortune& ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- * The Bridal Canopy (1931), an epic describing Galician Judaism at the start of the nineteenth century. (Translated) * Of Such and Of Such, (Translated ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- , 35 mm (professional) and 65 mm (epic photography, rarely used except ... markets in recent decades. Certain "epic" or adventure movies ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- The two scientists embarked on another epic investigation into uric acid and its derivatives and metabolites, publishing their results in 1837 ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- *Younghusband, Francis. The Epic of Mount Everest. Hesperides Press, 2006. ISBN 1406703818 :The expedition that inadvertently coined the term ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 09:58, 23 May 2023
- *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN 0674091760 *Dever, William G. Did God ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- Prufrock," The Waste Land, and the epic Four Quartets, are considered ... influence Eliot's later, religious epic poems—most notably the Four ...25 KB (3,801 words) - 02:02, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- was completed. In commending the Samanids, the epic Persian poet Ferdowsi says of them: کجا آن بزرگان ساسانیان ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- addition to small lyrical pieces contains the epic "Roland;" three years later he published another book of poetry, "Gedichte" (Berlin ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- pace along the coastline. Basho completed his epic work based on this journey, The Narrow Road to Oku|奥の細道|Oku no Hosomichi ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 16:53, 7 November 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (4,121 words) - 10:03, 22 January 2024
- Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Harvard University ... * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- *Leepson, Marc. Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built. University of Virginia Press, ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0674091764 *Dever, William G., Did God Have A Wife ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024
- with a Nobel Prize for Literature, "for an epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature." ...13 KB (2,140 words) - 16:45, 21 November 2022
- Edward Robb Ellis. The Epic of New York City. (Carroll & Graf ... * Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City. Carroll & Graf ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,990 words) - 17:03, 10 November 2022
- they recollect their past encounters, so that epic battles and milestones, such as the Fall of Granada, are written large while incidents of convivencia ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- Vishnu. Its reference can be found in the Hindu epic Ramayana. In China, the phoenix is called Feng-huang and symbolizes completeness, incorporating ...14 KB (2,311 words) - 14:23, 19 March 2024
- *Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History ... *Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (1,927 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- into wild geese and undertake an epic flight, all the way from Upper ... * Olson-Buckner, Elsa. The Epic Tradition in Gösta Berlings Saga ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,324 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321 c.e.), wrote three epic poems (known collectively as the Divine Comedy) titled Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. In his ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- speeds, fragmentation can occur in epic proportions and travel for extensive distances. When the S.S. Grandcamp exploded in the Texas City Disaster ...13 KB (2,042 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,126 words) - 00:21, 1 December 2023
- [[Image:Danel epic AO17323 img 0160.jpg|thumb|150px|Tablet bearing the legend of the Ugaritic hero Danel]] El, which was also the name of the ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- of Matthew Dickerson's Following Gandalf. Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings, published in the Journal of Religion and ...16 KB (2,149 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- * Crow, John Armstrong. The Epic of Latin America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN 0520077237 * Drake, Paul W., and Ivan ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- tales (preserved in plays, visual art, and epic poems) show that the ancient Greeks believed in independent, highly personified deities who were ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Lav, the son of Rama, the hero of the Ramayana of epic age (1200 B.C.E.-800 B.C.E.). During the excavations conducted in 1959 C.E. by the Department of ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 06:36, 1 April 2024
- The second legend draws on the Hindu epic, Ramayana. Lord Rama and his brother, Lakshmana, while searching for Sita in the vicinity of the ancient ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- Paterson, a dense but influential unfinished epic using composite construction. David T. Haberly, "The Depths of the River: Mário de Andrade ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- John Steele Gordon. An empire of wealth: the epic history of American ... * Gordon, John Steele. 2004. An empire of wealth: the epic history ...34 KB (4,890 words) - 08:31, 13 March 2024
- and Algernon Charles Swinburne's epic poem Tristram of Lyonesse ... on to play Lancelot in John Boorman's epic Excalibur. The popular German ...29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
- * Schecter, Stephen. David and Jonathan: An Epic Poem of Love and Power in Ancient Israel. Robert Davies Multimedia Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1895854660 ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 05:57, 9 July 2023
- to the events described in the great Mahabharata epic, including the incarnation of the beloved deity Krishna (Vishnu's eighth avatar) and his ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- and the Great Fire of London. It was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation, and was ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 04:57, 3 August 2022
- Milton's Paradise Lost was a famous Baroque epic, written in blank verse. Satan serves as the book's protagonist, and the epic deals with ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- himself as still living. In the conclusion of his epic Africa, he wrote: My fate is to live among varied and confusing storms. But for you perhaps ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- chapters of the Ramayana, a mythological religious epic of the Classical Hindu period, recount the magnificence of the city, the glories of the monarch ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- He wrote poetry in Latin, notably the Punic War epic Africa, but is today remembered for his works in the Italian vernacular, especially the Canzoniere ...32 KB (4,821 words) - 22:45, 22 September 2022
- * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic; Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- Kalidasa's epic Kumarasambhavam details the story of the maiden Parvati, whose very existence was necessitated by the fact that Shiva needed ...16 KB (2,503 words) - 08:58, 18 November 2022
- consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the epic poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, a tale of the fall of Don Juan. Pushkin ...14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- which knows no charm." In the Epic of Gilgamesh the hero searches for the secret of eternal life and learns that a plant which grows at ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- Part 7, Military Technology; the Gunpowder Epic. Taipei: Caves Books Ltd, 1986. ISBN 9780521320214. *Norris, John. Early Gunpowder Artillery: ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- Among other Hindu scriptures, the great Tamil epic, Silappatikaram (c. 100 C.E.) makes repeated references to the worship of Kali and suggests ...16 KB (2,597 words) - 17:12, 14 May 2024
- to the north, and the Bulala to the east. One epic poem extols his victories in 330 wars and more than 1,000 battles. His innovations included the ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. According to the story, whoever ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition. Though Gluck wrote no operas ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 21:41, 10 December 2023
- artists during the nineteenth century used the epic of nature as an expression of the sublime]] ====Victor Hugo==== Victor Hugo touched on aspects ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- regular feature of Celtic societies. While epic literature depicts this as ... and is a transcription of a much older epic poem, leading some scholars ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- of Balarama, who is portrayed in the great epic as Krishna's brother. ... the Mahabharata, India's "Great Epic" which centers upon the ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- #039;s Italia liberata - Gravina's favorite epic. It was called Giustino. Gravina had it printed in 1713; but the play is lifeless; and forty-two ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- of the Icelandic sagas into English, and his own epic retelling of the story of Sigurd the Volsung was his favorite among his poems. ...16 KB (2,355 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- quot;). These guns are also seen as reminders of epic expeditions, pioneering railroad expansions into wilderness areas, and of the golden age of big ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- the Ramakian (the Thai version of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana); the Jataka ... by Indian culture. Thailand's national epic is a version of the Ramayana ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- in New York and masterfully pared down from its epic ten-minute-plus length and split into two parts for release as a single, it would reach #6 on the ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- travel-l55.html Azores Travel Guide] Epic Trip. * [http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitor107/sets/1259848/ Photos from Sao Miguel and Terceira, Azores ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- ancient portrayal of the rainbow is given in the Epic of Gilgamesh where the rainbow a promise (The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet Eleven) ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:20, 16 April 2023
- so that there existed by the fourteenth century an epic poem about his exploits, and Dante included him among the virtuous pagan souls in Limbo. The ...16 KB (2,458 words) - 00:59, 23 December 2022
- * Jenish, D'Arcy. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003. ISBN 0385659733 ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- *Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. 1981. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur. Harcourt. ISBN 1570034559 *Bruccoli, Matthew, ed. 1994. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata epic. For its religious depth, ... the Ramayana, was written during the “Epic Period,” an era of great ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- differing stories. According to the epic Ramayana, Sravasti was a new city created for Lava, the son of Raghava Rama. Rama divided his Kosala ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 16:17, 8 February 2023
- other Southeast Asian versions of the Ramayana epic. Visiting Arts ... , fon sang sinxay (based on the Sinxay epic) and the candle dance fon ...42 KB (6,594 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- ===Epic songs=== [[Image:Serbian Gusle.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Serbian gusle.]] Traditionally, oral epic poems are delivered accompanied by the gusle ...62 KB (8,958 words) - 22:21, 14 March 2024
- centered around a sacred oak. When Homer's epic, The Odyssey, was composed (c. 750 B.C.E.), divination was done there by barefoot priests called ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN 0674091760 * Dever, William G. What Did the Biblical ...17 KB (2,713 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2023
- stories, memorable characters, heroic sacrifice, and epic battles. In the history of northern Europe, this collection of tales brought meaning and purpose ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- * The novel Ironfire: An Epic Novel of Love and War by David Ball ... both sides too often choose to stress such epic confrontations as the Siege ...33 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 27 January 2023
- One of the earliest known documents in Swahili, dated 1728, is an ... Traditional poetry can be classified into different groups, epic, ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- Manas is a traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people and the name of the epic's eponymous hero. The poem, with close to half a million ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- * Andrei Rublev (1966)--An epic based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the most famous medieval Russian icon painter. The artist-monk gives up his ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1997 (original 1973). ISBN 978-0674091764 ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
- nobility of Native peoples such as Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha and John Richardson’s Wacousta. At age 14, Johnson was sent to attend ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- Takeda Shingen appears in the epic film Heaven and Earth (1990), about the fourth battle of Kawanakajima as seen from Uesugi Kenshin's point ...17 KB (2,596 words) - 03:54, 27 February 2023
- evolved into The Silmarillion, an epic history that Tolkien started ... what would become his most famous work: the epic three-volume novel The Lord ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- Dilsher Singh in Richard Attenborough's 1982 epic Gandhi. == Criticisms == Ghaffar Khan's involvement in the politics of Partition was ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- history as a capital of the northern region. The epic Mahabharata speaks of Ujjayani as the capital of Avanti Kingdom during the ancient era, and Ashoka ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Ganesha also does not appear in literature of the epic period, save ... in a late interpolation to the massive epic poem Mahabharata, it is written ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- from his literary efforts. He planned to write an epic in prose, Les Martyrs, set during the Roman persecution of early Christianity. As part of his research ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- a firing squad so that he can finish the epic poem he had been working on ... Hernandez, author of the Argentine folk epic Martin Fierro, as his own ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- Kauravas. This battle is recorded in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, which is best known for a poem included within it, the Bhagavadgita, wherein ...18 KB (2,850 words) - 07:10, 23 August 2023
- focus of education in the region is the traditional epic form, the root of most Hindu legends. Music is also a cultural arena for Varanasi, with ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- historic basis for the flood stories found in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Bible in Book of Genesis, Chapters 6-9. On the other hand, there is also ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- style, and as a result seems more dated than the epic tragedies and histories of Shakespeare. Jonson's control of pentameter, moreover, is hackneyed ...17 KB (2,769 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Furthermore, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh contains one of the earliest recorded legends of humanity, Gilgamesh claimed to be of both human ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- who was reincarnated as the hero Bhishma in the epic Mahabharata. Supporting this conclusion, he draws upon the respective roles of each character ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- While in Mexico Neruda also published his lengthy epic poem Canto General, a Whitman-inspired catalog of the history, geography, and flora and fauna ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- Prelude in particular as a singular influence. The epic poem's famous opening lines exemplify the late, stern style of Wordsworth: ...18 KB (2,833 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- Trimalchionis," which combines epic, tragedy, and philosophy with ... as some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Epic poetry as well as aspects ...31 KB (4,584 words) - 15:56, 18 December 2022
- of Bhasa's play Abhiṣeka Nataka based on the epic Ramayana) Koodiyattam (1962- Chennai). It was the first Koodiyattam performance outside Kerala ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- their March Winterland show, became their most epic song and a concert favorite. Ginger Baker's solo in "Toad" is widely regarded as ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- *The Cid (1803) (published 1805; a free translation of the Spanish epic) ==References== *Barnard, F. M. Herder's Social and Political Thought; ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- 31 - Astonishment in Sweden] The Swedenborg Epic. Retrieved February 1, 2024. ... *Sigstedt, Cyriel Odhner. The Swedenborg Epic. The Life and Works ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- major novel of modernism, alongside Joyce's epic Ulysses and Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The novel, or "story of ideas" ...18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022
- Indra consumes soma in preparation for these epic battles between good and evil. In addition, in his capacity as a defender of good he is considered ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- printed in the same volume with Gautier's epic Albertus. Another publication was released in 1845, that included revisions of some of the poems ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic, Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 0674091760 * Farbridge, Maurice H. Studies in Biblical ...19 KB (3,041 words) - 13:10, 19 December 2022
- of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem, Brill Studies in Middle ... of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem. Brill Studies in Middle ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- The epic progressive rock sound of the era had a great deal of orchestral instruments, which were often played by session players. The age of ...21 KB (3,114 words) - 14:58, 19 September 2023
- * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN 978-0674091764 * Dicou, Bert. Edom, ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary device, anthropomorphism - that is giving animals, plants, inanimate ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- century, critics saw the romance as of epic length and the novel as its ... Thanh Lãng and Nhất Linh classified the epic poems such as The Tale of ...82 KB (12,058 words) - 20:51, 27 February 2023
- * Lock, Ron, and Peter Quantrill. Zulu victory: the epic of Isandlwana and the cover-up. London, UK: Greenhill Books, 2002. ISBN 9781853675058 ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- were made with the Cleveland Orchestra for Epic/Columbia/CBS (now Sony). Few of his mono recordings have been reissued. Many live stereo recordings ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 15:01, 21 May 2024
- a cycle of stories closely linked to the Trojan epic tradition of Homer. The trilogy is the only extant trilogy of the ancient Greek tragedies remaining ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- took Aornos by storm. Alexander fought an epic battle against Porus, a ruler ... were making him the subject of their epic poems, and holding him up ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- in the Mahabharata, a poetic account of the epic battle between the Pandava and Kaurava families. Since he Hanuman is the son of Vayu, he is ...19 KB (3,063 words) - 19:40, 29 January 2022
- economy with key players such as GE Healthcare, Epic Systems, and TomoTherapy. Tourism is also a major industry in Wisconsin—the state's ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- of Forever. The book Willie Nelson: An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski was ... * Patoski, Joe Nick. Willie Nelson: An Epic Life. Little, Brown and ...49 KB (6,754 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic, War and Peace, in which Fonda played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn. Fonda worked with Alfred ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 15:04, 16 July 2022
- the first known recorded story, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Sumerians believed ... The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Babylonia, is among the earliest ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- (1967), and The Estate (1969). These extensive epic works have been compared with Thomas Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks. (Singer had translated Mann ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- to work incessantly on The Cantos, an epic poem which would eventually ... in writing his own unfinished Modernist epic The Maximus Poems. ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- FBI by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The request revealed a series of e-mails ...22 KB (3,187 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- asp?id=VFZSWk0wNW5QVDA9 NANTAP Packages Epic Film on Obafemi Awolowo,] Ghana News. Retrieved September 17, 2008. A memorial website describes ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- *In Irish Mythology, the epic hero Cúchulainn is associated with the number 7. He has 7 fingers on each hand, 7 toes on each foot, and 7 pupils ...35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
- #The Epic period (600 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) This period is characterized by the informal presentation of philosophical doctrines through nonsystematic ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- by-Water-takes-readers-on-a-wild-ride-of-epic-proportions "'Death ... by-Water-takes-readers-on-a-wild-ride-of-epic-proportions "'Death ...45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
- artworks depict a dragon and tiger fighting an epic battle. Although the Imperial dragon is infinitely more powerful than the tiger in myth, a well used ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- Jacques Rousseau, he proposes instead "an epic historical theater of 'joy, force and intelligence' which will remind the people of its ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- Under his reign lived the most famous epic hero of Hungarian literature and warfare, the king's Champion: Nicolas Toldi. John de Cardailhac ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- Adapa loses his chance of eternal life. In the Epic of Gilgamesh Utnapishtim—a human who has been granted eternal life by the gods—tells Gilgamesh ...19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
- consider War and Peace to be a novel, but an epic in prose. Remarkable for its breadth and unity, its vast canvas includes 580 characters, many historical ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 19:54, 7 May 2024
- series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories ... of his popular achievement with the epic Buddenbrooks (1901), which ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 21:22, 30 April 2023
- made Cato the hero of Book IX of his unfinished epic, the Pharsalia. From the latter work originates the epigram, "Victrix causa diis placuit ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 03:51, 6 November 2022
- In 1841, the epic poem Haidamaky was released. In September of 1841, Shevchenko was awarded his third Silver Medal for The Gypsy Fortune Teller ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- of a certain transcendence in the old man's epic struggle, the narrative itself is arid and spartan. Hemingway seems to insist that beyond any ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- *Ambrose, Stephen E. Crazy Horse and Custer: The epic clash of two great warriors at the Little Bighorn. Pocket Books, 2003. ISBN 978-0743468640 ...19 KB (3,137 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- in line with the canons of the "epic poem of Pentaur," can ... was to be retold many times in prose, as an epic poem and in relief carving ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
- * Cross, Frank Moore. 1973. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674091760. * Rosenthal, Franz. 1969 ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- his life visiting the United States and painting his epic mural for the Boston Public Library. In his youth he was educated in Italy, France and ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- and as Charlton Heston's wife in the disaster epic Earthquake, of 1974. Gardner's last film before leaving public life was The Sentinel ...18 KB (2,786 words) - 07:08, 23 August 2023
- of which most famous is the heroic or epic poem Digenis Acritas. ... the university at Athens), producing the epic poet Nonnus, the lyric poet ...39 KB (5,978 words) - 19:13, 24 November 2023
- show the influence of both by the Sanskrit epic Ramayana and the Chinese classic ... Hotuma Tsutahe, 秀真伝) is an elaborate epic of Japanese mythical history ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- the most famous examples include the Old English epic Beowulf, which ends with the hero battling a dragon; and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- (1989), by Richard Heffron A 2-part dramatic epic film about the French Revolution, following the lives of Robespierre and Danton from their youth ...20 KB (3,217 words) - 15:13, 21 May 2024
- a section of the larger Mahabharata Epic. Here he appears in the form of Krishna, who serves as charioteer for Arjuna, a conflicted warrior ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- "I Shall Be Released." Robertson's epic, "The Weight," would be used in the cult classic film Easy Rider and become The Band ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- *Shively, John C. The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic ... M-IwoJima/index.html Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic], Marines in World War II ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- composing On the Nature of Things, an epic poem, in six books, designed to recruit new members. The poem mainly deals with the Epicurean philosophy ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- In 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for his epic poem “Boadicea.” He proved his ability in mathematics by becoming second Wrangler and second ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- Chicago is currently undergoing an epic construction boom that will greatly add to the city's skyline. Since 2000, at least 40 buildings ...21 KB (3,158 words) - 22:48, 29 January 2023
- (Antony). An Academy Award-winning Cecil B. DeMille epic. * Caesar and Cleopatra (1946). Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Claude Rains (Caesar), Stewart ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- O’Higgins, cited by John Armstrong Crow, The Epic of Latin America ... * Crow John A. 1992. Epic of Latin America, 4th ed. Berkeley, CA: ...40 KB (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
- First,” and Young's majestic hard-rock epic “Pushed It Over The End.” Reaching an impasse with the larger band, Crosby and Nash then ...21 KB (3,245 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- their role in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic work The Lord of the Rings, elves have become staple characters of modern fantasy tales. There is great ...21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
- * The Art of the Novel: Vladislav Vancura's Path to the Great Epic (Umění románu: Cesta Vladislava Vančury za velkou epikou) (1960) ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 12:12, 24 August 2023
- Kings), which is regarded as the national epic. The "Glory of the Kings ... From this epic, a national identity emerged as God's new chosen ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- too, goddess worship was common. The great Tamil epic, Silappatikaram (c. 100 C.E.) makes repeated references to the worship of Kali and suggests ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- Leonard Muellener, The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic (Cornell University Press, 2005, ISBN 0801489954). ==Contents== ===Introduction=== ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- production Joey, Perkins was signed to Epic Records and later RCA Victor shortly before earning his Oscar nomination. Between 1957 and 1958 he ...20 KB (2,895 words) - 05:25, 31 July 2023
- were the publication of the national epic, Kalevipoeg, in 1862, and ... or peasant, music and literature. The epic, Kalevipoeg, was written to ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- Triumph of the Will was generally recognized as a masterful, epic, innovative work of documentary filmmaking. Because it was commissioned by ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- supreme command of Kamboja king Sudakshina. The epic numerously applauds this composite army as being very fierce and wrathful. The Balakanda ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- active in Upton Sinclair's socialist EPIC (End Poverty In California ... his earlier efforts in the socialist EPIC and Social Credit movements; ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- with medicine, astronomy and literature. The epic of Gilgamesh, a masterpiece of ancient Babylonian poetry, was also found in the library. The library ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 00:41, 12 April 2023
- #039;s writing. In the middle of his epic poem The Ballad of the White Horse he famously states: :For the great Gaels of Ireland :Are the men ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Bound is unlike many of Shelley's other epic poems in a similar vein which were entirely contrived; Shelley re-imagines the myth and recasts Prometheus ...20 KB (3,154 words) - 00:32, 24 November 2022
- returned to Germany in order to make his Indian Epic, which is regarded as a masterpiece by a number of film scholars today. Following the production ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- (prose narrative tale, comparable to an epic). However, Genji stands above other tales of the time much as Shakespeare's plays stand above ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- and is immortalized in Alonso de Ercilla's epic poem, La Araucana. These indigenous people defeated the most powerful nation on earth. The Mapuche ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- His last major work was the epic life of Frederick the Great (1858-1865). In this Carlyle tried to show how a heroic leader can forge a state ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 18:40, 30 April 2023
- literature such as Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Nineveh's greatness was short-lived, however. Around 633 B.C.E. the Assyrian empire ...21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
- and have been reconstructed. Large portions of Epic of Gilgamesh were among the many finds. *The Villa of the Papyri, in Herculaneum, was one ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:39, 20 July 2023
- His Ramavatharam representes the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although the author states that he followed Valmiki, his work trancends ...44 KB (6,505 words) - 17:15, 10 December 2023
- The South Indian epic of Manimekalai (written between second and third century CE) mentions the Nasrani people by the name Essanis referring ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- The Ghegs are known for a distinctive variety of sung epic poems, ... women are increasingly taking part in epic balladry. The city of Korca ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Nation Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. ISBN 9780684848709 ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- Shamans use various means, including music, recitation of epic, dance, and ritual objectsHoppál 2005:14 to interact with the spirit world - ...45 KB (6,702 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- the Kambojas ruled over Kashmir during the epic period, about the sixth century B.C.E. The capital city of Kashmir (Kamboj) during epic times ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- on Crete has shed light on aspects of Homer's epic. A much debated question is what caused the demise of this ancient civilization. One possibility ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- His poems range in style from the three-volume epic closet drama Dynasts to smaller, and often hopeful or even cheerful poems of the moment such ...20 KB (3,171 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- will get French award for heroism in epic Asian battle," Associated ... will get French award for heroism in epic Asian battle." Associated ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- was one of the most dramatic in history, winning epic contests in the mid-1970s against heavyweight champion George Foreman in Zaire and former champion ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- * Moulton, Gary E. (ed.). The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. ISBN 080322950X. ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- comes so close to being a translation of an Akkadian epic," Burkert concludes (91). for realms to rule. Zeus got the sky, Poseidon got the ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- wagon to Bulawayo. The government arranged an epic journey by train from the Cape to Rhodesia, with the funeral train stopping at every station to ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 20:13, 4 January 2024
- Pasquale Scaturro. 2005. Mystery of the Nile: the epic story of the first descent of the world's deadliest river. New York City: G.P. Putnam's ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- The Hindu epic, Mahabharata tells that the Vasus, cursed by Vashishta had requested Ganga to be their mother. Ganga incarnated and became the ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- emperor Commodus in Anthony Mann's epic The Fall of the Roman Empire ... of the Robert Wise directed musical epic The Sound of Music (1965) ...51 KB (7,432 words) - 21:43, 10 December 2023
- of what became Finland's national epic, the Kalevala, in 1835; the ... * Chew, Allen F. The White Death: The epic of the Soviet-Finnish Winter ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- from the earliest poetical verses, an Israelite epic called "J" dating from the time of King Solomon, a Northern version ("E" ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- * Miller, Donald. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. ISBN 978-0684801940. ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 06:40, 1 April 2024
- The South Indian epic of Manimekalai, written between second and third century C.E., mentions the Nasrani people by the name Essanis, referring ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- was the ancestor of Gilgamesh, who according to the epic dived to the bottom of the waters to retrieve the plant of life. However, while he rested from ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- and generally being "an eccentric rebel of epic proportions," as one commentator put it. Paul Newman once called Huston "the eccentric ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- being in the Sumerian prologue to the Gilgamesh epic.Raphael Patai, Adam ve-Adama, trans. as Man and Earth (Jerusalem: The Hebrew Press Association ...47 KB (7,623 words) - 08:39, 8 March 2023
- The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian literature features its hero Gilgamesh establishing his credibility as a leader after wrestling Enkidu. Other ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- In the early 1970s, the Monroe Epic programmable calculator came on the market. A large desk-top unit, with an attached floor-standing logic ...24 KB (3,458 words) - 18:22, 25 November 2023
- and around the world by the popularity of the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1855. The epic contains many ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- in China, Vol. 7. The Gunpowder Epic Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 0521303583 * Norris, John. Early Gunpowder Artillery: 1300-1600. ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- well as playing Memnet in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956). In 1955 she toured Australia with Medea. [https://trove.nla ...26 KB (3,842 words) - 18:10, 24 January 2024
- * Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN 0-671-50248-4 ==External links== ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- cacique, and then to the common people; the village epic would be sung and accompanied by maraca and other instruments. [[Image:LasCaritas03.JPG ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- noted that Gordimer "through her magnificent epic writing has—in the words of Alfred Nobel—been of very great benefit to humanity". ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 20:34, 13 February 2023
- him to Bhishma Pitamah of the Mahabharata epic, a man respected by all political ... a reference to the character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata who was held in ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- The motion picture Midway was relased in 1976. An epic look at the ... on film was in the 2001 release of the epic Pearl Harbor, produced by ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- to stay with Robert Fitzgerald (translator of Greek epic plays and poems, including Oedipus Rex and both the Odyssey and the Iliad) and his wife, Sally ...24 KB (3,778 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- round of the United States Open before losing an epic match to Holland's Tom Okker. In 1969, at age 41, Gonzales recorded his most famous ...25 KB (3,993 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- (Shah Abbas II sent Zaman to study in Rome). The epic called the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), a stellar example of manuscript illumination and calligraphy ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- Some Rastafari recognize the Ethiopian national epic the Kebra Negast, which explains the lineage of the Ethiopian monarchy, as another important ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- *Russian Epic Song, Leningrad 1955–1958 *Popular Lyric Songs, Leningrad 1961 *Russian Agrarian Feasts, Leningrad 1963 He also published some ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 23:03, 24 May 2023
- flags. Flags are also featured in the Indian epic of Mahabharata. Originally, the 'standards' of the Roman legions were not flags, but were ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- •1emEthical and Professional Issues in Computing (EPIC) Electronic Privacy Information Center •1emElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Electronic ...26 KB (3,869 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- EA#359myth Epic of king of Battle EA#360... EA#361... EA#365Megiddo king Biridiya to pharaoh EA#367pharaoh to Endaruta of Akshapa EA#xxxAmenhotep ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- in five acts (1859) — inspired by Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid. * Beatrice et Benedict, comic opera in two acts, with text by the composer ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
- Sastri (1955), 361. Brahmin writers wrote epic early works, Ramayana, Mahabharata ... by Kashmiri poet Bilhana recounts in epic style the life and achievements ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- his status as a martial arts legend. The film epic was made for $850,000 in 1973 ($3.74 million in 2005 currency. To date, Enter the Dragon has grossed ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- history and traditions invoked by their national epic, the Kalevala, tells their story. The Norwegians, and the Icelanders regard their Viking heritage ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- elements of the Kalachakra Tantra and the Gesar Epic—is that they may be taught for the sake of those who possess a karmic tendency towards militancy ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- Dead is a fabricated recreation of the Old English epic Beowulf in the form of a scholarly translation of Ahmad ibn Fadlan's tenth century manuscript ...24 KB (3,558 words) - 10:38, 10 March 2023
- scene of Nicholas Ray's biblical epic King of Kings. Pompey is played ... Civil War the second most famous Roman heroic epic. Lucan and S.H. ...48 KB (7,762 words) - 08:50, 24 November 2022
- are normally featured in two of cycling's epic grand tours, the Tour de France held annually in July and the Vuelta a España held in September ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- Jean.Colin Burgess, Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. ... * Burgess, Colin. Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- from the Kumarbi cycle, a Bronze Age Hurrian epic from the Lake Van region. However, the Titanomachy itself could have picked up elements of western ...26 KB (3,980 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- * Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ISBN 9780671502485 ==External links== ...24 KB (3,700 words) - 18:48, 5 April 2024
- 6. Epic and Paninian Sanskrit: The language of the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, and the Classical Sanskrit described by Panini is considered ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Words (Он и Она. Два слова) and two epic dramas, Eastward (На пути к Востоку) and Vandelin: Springtime Fairytale. By the ...28 KB (3,939 words) - 20:33, 30 August 2023
- Secret History of the Mongols: a Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth ... Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- was widespread, along with the resurrection of epic and international cooperation. Fundamentals of the Pan-Slavic program, which addressed the issues ...26 KB (4,082 words) - 01:44, 23 November 2022
- * Rahman, Ahmad A. The Regime Change of Kwame Nkrumah: Epic Heroism in Africa and the Diaspora. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ISBN ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- Ojibwa as described in Longfellow's famous epic poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Longfellow said that he based his poem on Schoolcraft's Algic ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- The first recorded works in the western literary tradition are the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod. Early Greek lyric poetry, as represented by ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- by the War Scroll, which describes what this epic battle may be like, according to the group(s) that existed at Qumran. ===The Epistle of Enoch=== ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- were regarded in a similar light, that is, as an epic battle between the civilized and uncivilized world, a view of military conflict that had also ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- VI) and others, Kandinsky portrays epic myths by translating them into contemporary terms along with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- Joshua had once been a sixth book of the Yahwistic epic, or "J Source" following the five books of the Pentateuch, but was later incorporated ...26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
- respectively, were first made into epic poetry and became partly mythological over the following centuries. "Conscious generation" ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Chaldean myth, the character Utnapishtim releases a dove and a raven to find land; however, the dove merely circles ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- A rich oral tradition has been passed on through epic poetry, storytelling, and public speaking. Nearly every celebration has music and dancing. ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Navajo(Diné) |image=[[Image:Navajo medicine ...48 KB (7,395 words) - 15:33, 11 November 2022
- B.C.E. Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, Isaiah 25:11), Beowulf ...26 KB (3,876 words) - 13:41, 23 March 2023
- contains chants from the Bhagavad-Gita, a Hindu epic. A 1966 recording, issued posthumously, has Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders chanting from a Buddhist ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 04:46, 3 August 2022
- * Best, Robert M. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic. Fort Myers ... * Tigay, Jeffrey H. The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic. Philadelphia: ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- Jean Sibelius wrote music based on the Finnish epic, the Kalevala and his piece 'Finlandia' became a symbol of Finnish nationalism. Chopin ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 17:43, 20 December 2022
- consider to be the wrong reasons: his tragedies and epic poems. These productions, admired by Voltaire’s contemporaries, are now considered technically ...27 KB (4,100 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Vintage, 2011, ISBN 978-0679763888). ...32 KB (4,394 words) - 10:18, 12 May 2024
- her as the Roman empress Poppaea in his historical epic, The Sign of the Cross (1932). In one sequence, Colbert bathes in a marble pool filled with ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Matthew Cronin, Epic: John McEnroe, Björn Borg, and the Greatest ... * Cronin, Matthew. Epic: John McEnroe, Björn Borg, and the Greatest ...64 KB (9,860 words) - 20:09, 29 April 2023
- the vampire theme to Western literature in his epic poem The Giaour (1813), but it was John Polidori who authored the first "true" vampire ...26 KB (4,074 words) - 01:36, 18 April 2023
- * Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN 0674091752 * Ellis, Peter. The Yahwist: ...31 KB (4,834 words) - 01:16, 7 April 2022
- #039;s own father, Ronnie Cornwell, as "an epic con man of little education, immense charm, extravagant tastes, but no social values."LynnDianne ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- * Forsyth, Neil. The Satanic Epic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. ISBN 0691113394 * Gentry, Kenneth L. The Beast of Revelation ...27 KB (4,237 words) - 16:57, 23 December 2022
- He began to explore different mediums, writing epic poetry and trying his hand at writing an opera. Both of these endeavors centered around his ...27 KB (4,330 words) - 19:28, 24 November 2023
- "prophetic books," such as the epic poem Jerusalem and the book-length chronicle The Four Zoas that to this day have been largely neglected ...26 KB (4,085 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Ancient Crash, Epic Wave] The New York Times, November 14, 2006. Retrieved October 10, 2015. There have been other ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- on Earth (1952), Cecil B. De Mille's circus epic, and Road to Bali (1952). However this did not seem to lead to better film offers, and Lamour began ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- Folk literature includes the epic poems (dastans) Gorgut Ata and Göroglu, which show early Turkic culture with Islamic values added. Turkmen ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- an ideal candidate for the part of Scarlett in the epic film Gone with the Wind, director David O. Selznick decided that she was too old (at age 36) for ...25 KB (3,800 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- 12–minute rendition of his anti-war epic, Machine Gun. The release of the Band of Gypsys album—the only official live recording sanctioned ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- His most iconic role was that of Rhett Butler in the 1930 epic film, Gone With the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. In 1934, he won ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- Thus, in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), iii. 353: :"Immortal amarant, a flower which once :In paradise, fast by the tree ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 00:49, 9 January 2023
- paternal grandmother used to recite to him the great epic poems of Persian history. He held French, Iranian, and Swiss citizenship, and was fluent in ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- Muslims take part in a rite of passage of truly epic proportions. They discard their workday concerns, clothe themselves in the ihram (simple white robes ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- In a more detailed manner, Snorri Sturluson begins his epic history of Scandinavia with the Ynglinga saga, a euhemerized account of the Norse ...27 KB (4,366 words) - 02:39, 1 December 2023
- | genre = Historical fiction, philosophical novel, satire, epic, spy fiction, horror, biography, literary criticism, travel literature ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- Sergei Eisenstein on the score to the historical epic Alexander Nevsky. For this he composed some of his most inventive dramatic music. Although the ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- * Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight Over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome. Harcourt, 2003 (original ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- *Holst, Sanford. Phoenicians, Lebanon's Epic Heritage. Los Angeles, CA: Cambridge; and Boston Press, 2005. ISBN 1887263306 *Johnston, Thomas ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- the Yongle Emperor sponsored at least seven epic sea-going expeditions between 1405 and 1433, led by the great admiral, the Muslim eunuch Zheng ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed ... * Rabinovich, Abraham. The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- The Pope’s epic June 1979 pilgrimage to his homeland on the nine-hundredth anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Stanislaus of Krakow—made ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- The epic story begins in the last years of the Han Dynasty and covers the turbulent period during which various warlords and pretenders to the ...29 KB (4,917 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- is mentioned extensively in the first Chinese epic novel, Dream of the Red Chamber Lydia Chen. (2003). Chinese Knotting: Creative Designs that ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- Yakshagana (Kannada:ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ, pronounced as yaksha-gaana) is a traditional dance drama popular in the coastal districts and adjacent ...30 KB (4,418 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
- Southern India extolling an episode from the Hindu epic, The Mahabharata. Measuring 96 feet long by 43 feet high, the bas-relief also goes by the name ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- found in three of the 12 tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Bible ... * Holst, Sanford. Phoenicians: Lebanon's Epic Heritage. Los Angeles ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- learn of the arrival of Thetans on Earth and an epic history of the universe, described by L. Ron Hubbard as a "space opera." Though official ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 2023
- by his trip that he staged his 1838 epic poem La Chute d'un ange (The Fall of an Angel) in Lebanon. ==Religious beliefs== Alphonse de Lamartine ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- *Stiles, T.J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vintage, 2010. ISBN 978-1400031740 *Woolsey, Matthew. Vanderbilt University ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- only to see the Communists escape through the epic Long March to Yan'an. [[Image:Chiangs and Stilwell.jpg|right|thumb|233px|Generalissimo ...31 KB (4,795 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- of years, with scorpion-folk depicted in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, among the earliest known works of literary fiction, and scorpions associated ...32 KB (4,433 words) - 02:37, 21 April 2023
