epic poem

Details

Instance of

literary genre, art movement

Subclass of

epic literature, verse poetry, narrative poetry

Said to be the same as

epopeio, epic literature

described by source

Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Basque Literature Terms Dictionary

different from

epic

model item

Iliad

topic's main category

Category:Epic poems, Category:Epic

Creators in this collection (14)

• Homer900 BCE
• Virgil70 BCE
• Ovid43 BCE
• Kalidasa—
• Ivan Vazov1850
• Wace1100
• Maithili Sharan Gupt1886
• Robinson Jeffers1887
• Andrejs Pumpurs1841
• Bharavi501

Works in this collection (60)

• Iliad800 BCE
• Mahabharata—
• Odyssey—
• The Divine Comedy1320
• Ramayana—
• Shahnameh1000
• Aeneid50 BCE
• Kalevala1835
• Metamorphoses1
• The Knight in the Panther's Skin1180
• Argonautica

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