1. An epic or heroic poem. See epic poem.
2. A story or event of grand or epic proportions.
Narrative poem or cycle of poems dealing with some great deed —often the founding of a nation or the forging of national unity—and often using religious or cosmological themes. The two main epic poems in the Western tradition are The Iliad and The Odyssey, attributed to Homer, which were probably intended to be chanted in sections at feasts.
Greek and later criticism, which considered the Homeric epic the highest form of poetry, produced the genre of secondary epic—such as the Aeneid of Virgil, Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, and Milton’s Paradise Lost—which attempted to emulate Homer, often for a patron or a political cause. The term is also applied to narrative poems of other traditions: the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and the Finnish Kalevala; in India the Ramayana and Mahabharata; and the Babylonian Gilgamesh. All of these evolved in different societies to suit similar social needs and used similar literary techniques. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin, from Greek.
A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.
Epic poem.
Epic poem or poetry; collection of lays dealing with same theme.
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