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Harmon & Holman (1999) define an epic: Epic A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race. — Harmon & Holman (1999) [13]
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; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
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Adds a block quotation. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status text text 1 quote The text to quote Content required char char The character being quoted Example Alice Content suggested sign sign 2 cite author The person being quoted Example Lewis Carroll Content suggested title title 3 The title of the poem being quoted Example Jabberwocky Content suggested ...
The heroic lay (German Heldenlied) is a genre of Germanic epic poetry characteristic of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages.A lay is a short narrative poem of between 80 and 200 lines concerning a single heroic episode in the life of a warrior from Germanic legend.
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Ancient Greek ἐπύλλιον (epyllion) is the diminutive of ἔπος (epos) in that word's senses of "verse" or "epic poem"; Liddell and Scott's Greek–English Lexicon thus defines ἐπύλλιον as a "versicle, scrap of poetry" or "short epic poem", citing for the latter definition Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.68 (65a–b): [1]