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In Mayilainathar's commentary (14th century CE) on the grammar Naṉṉūl, there is the first mention of aimperumkappiyam, the five great epics of Tamil literature. [ 27 ] Each of these epics have long cantos, like in Cilappatikāram , which has 30 referred as monologues sung by any character in the story or by an outsider as his monologue ...
Ismailnameh an epic poem on shah Ismail I heroic deeds by Qsimi Qunabadi nephew of Hatifi (1513) Orlando Furioso (Italian) by Ludovico Ariosto (1516) Theuerdank and Weisskunig (Weisskunig only got published in 1775 [3]) by Maximilian I and Marx Treitzsaurwein, often considered the last medieval epics. [4] [5] Davidiad (Latin) by Marko Marulić ...
The English word epic comes from Latin epicus, which itself comes from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos), [3] "word, story, poem." [ 4 ] In ancient Greek , 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter ( epea ), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod , the utterances ...
The Tamil nationalistic inspiration derived from the Cilappadikaram is a selective reading and appropriation of the great epic, according to Cutler. [62] It cherrypicks and brackets some rhetorical and ideological elements from the epic but ignores the rest that make the epic into a complete masterpiece.
Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic ...
Biag ni Lam-Ang (Life of Lam-Ang), an epic of the Ilocano of northern Luzon, the Philippines; Ibalong Epic, a 60-stanza fragment of a Bicolano full-length folk epic of Bicol Region of the Philippines. Hinilawod, an epic of the Panay-Bukidnons of Panay, the Visayas, central Philippines. Darangen, an epic of the Maranao of Mindanao, the Philippines.
The Kuntalakeci is one of Aim-perum-kappiyam (lit. "five great kavyas", or The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature) according to the later Tamil literary tradition. [2] The surviving stanza fragments of the epic are in kalitturai poetic meter. It was likely an epic drama-musical for Tamil Buddhist audience in and about the 10th-century. [2]
The dominant emotion of this epic is love, and its predominant object is the inculcation of Jain principles and doctrines. [3] Palm-leaf manuscripts of the epic likely existed until the 19th-century, but presently only uncertain fragments of the epic are known from commentaries and the 14th-century anthology Purattirattu.