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  • [[Image:Homer_British_Museum.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bust of Homer in ... early Greek poet traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems ...
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  • August 3, 1964) was an American author, born in Savannah, Georgia. She is generally ... The Southern Gothic author usually avoids perpetuating Antebellum ...
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  • ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian ... when cultural influences were eroding the adherence of the people to ...
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  • , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... The term Hades, in its cosmological sense, has sometimes been used ...
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  • Ancient Greek literature refers to literature written in the Greek ... In addition to history and philosophy, Ancient Greek literature is ...
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  • one set of criteria specifies material held in common by a group of people ... In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission ...
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  • The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging ... Greek mythology has exercised an extensive and profound influence ...
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  • Ukrainian heritage and upbringing, he wrote in the Russian language and his ... Gogol is seen by most critics as the first Russian realist. His biting ...
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  • Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 B.C.E. – 19 B.C.E.), known ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...
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  • The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...
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  • poet best known for his songs and libretti. In his heyday, Metastasio's ... that Metastasio's legacy may lie more in the realm of music than in ...
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  • Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations ... how gender has been constructed, and even if in most societies men have claimed ...
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  • who is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and widely ... Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island ...
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  • Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...
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  • poetry, and particularly her work written in close association with the ... embrace H.D.'s prolific reading of the Latin and Greek classics, ...
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  • In Hinduism, the Rāmāyaṇa is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed ... The Rāmāyaṇa consists of 24,000 verses About 480,000 words, or ...
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  • Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for ...
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  • nation first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...
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  • Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...
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  • In Hinduism, the Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics ... prose passages, or some 1.8 million words in total, it is the longest epic ...
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