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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
- 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
