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Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [3] and launched in 2014. [4]
Epic originally comes from the Latin word epicus, which itself comes from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos) deriving from ἔπος (epos), meaning "word, story, poem." [3] The word Epic, throughout the years, has adapted to different meanings that stem far away from its origins. In Ancient Greece, Epic was used in the form of ...
Epic commonly refers to: Epic poetry , a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation Epic film , a genre of film defined by the spectacular presentation of human drama on a grandiose scale
Photos can be a big to-do -- and these kids are having none of it. The great thing about these photos is that they are stills, but you can still hear the screams. Many of us know a kid of two who ...
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is an American 2D-animated streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television that is based on (and a sequel to) the 2017 3D-animated film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, which in turn is based on the Captain Underpants series of books by Dav Pilkey. [1] [2]
Many writers may refer to any film that is "long" (over two hours) as an epic, making the definition epic a matter of dispute, and raise questions as to whether it is a "genre" at all. As Roger Ebert put it, in his "Great Movies" article on Lawrence of Arabia: [5] The word epic in recent years has become synonymous with big-budget B picture.
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.
In his work Poetics, Aristotle defines an epic as one of the forms of poetry, contrasted with lyric poetry and drama (in the form of tragedy and comedy). [12] Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter and is narrative in form.