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Epic: The Musical (stylized as EPIC) is a nine-part series of concept albums (referred to as "sagas") with music and lyrics by Jorge Rivera-Herrans. A sung-through adaptation of Homer's Odyssey inspired by musical theater, it tells the story of Odysseus as he tries to return from Troy to Ithaca after the ten-year-long Trojan War.
Kutune Shirka, sacred yukar epic of the Ainu people of which several translations exist; Lay of Mouse-fate (Musurdvitha), a fantasy epic inspired by animal fable and Arthurian legend. Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad
Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.. The most famous saga-genre is the Íslendingasögur (sagas concerning Icelanders), which feature Viking voyages, migration to Iceland, and feuds between Icelandic families.
The Epic Cycle was the distillation in literary form of an oral tradition that had developed during the Greek Dark Age, which was based in part on localised hero cults. The traditional material from which the literary epics were drawn treats Mycenaean Bronze Age culture from the perspective of Iron Age and later Greece.
An advertisement for Marvel's Epic Collection. The Epic Collection is an ongoing line of color trade paperbacks that republish Marvel comics in a uniform trade dress. . Announced in April 2013, their stated intention was to collect entire runs of characters or titles as "big fat collections with the best price we can maintain", [1] in similar manner to the discontinued black-and-white Essentia
Cover to Saga #1 (March 2012). Art by Fiona Staples. The following is a list of characters from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' epic space opera/fantasy comic book series Saga, which debuted in 2012 by Image Comics. It depicts a husband and wife from long-warring extraterrestrial races, Alana and Marko, fleeing authorities from both sides ...
Ancient baby names: Choosing a baby name from ancient history means you probably don't have to worry about it getting too popular!
The fourth trade paperback collection, Saga, Vol. 4, which collects issues #19-24, was released on December 17, 2014, [25] the same day as Saga Deluxe Edition volume 1, a hardcover that reprints the first 18 issues, or Book One of the series, comprising its first three-story arcs. [26] [27]