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- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- His most important poem, the massive epic The Faerie Queene is intentionally ... to English poetry. The poem, written in the epic form, is a long, dense allegory ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Shamash is depicted as overcoming darkness and death. In the Epic ... ===Shamash in the Epic of Gilgamesh=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- father published 50 copies of a juvenile epic, on the Battle of Marathon ... her life to extend her talents into the epic form so as to address ideas ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- the classical, Latin forms of epic poetry. Of a romantic mindset ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote an epic entitled Torquato Tasso, ...18 KB (2,976 words) - 04:39, 1 May 2023
- gubernatorial race of 1934, known as EPIC (End Poverty in California ... in the election, and largely abandoned EPIC and politics to return to ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- Aeneid had already been canonized as the national epic of Rome. In response to this, Ovid realized that in order to create an epic of his own he would ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- to live and what to do, in contrast to the epic adventures of his contemporaries. ... Theogony. It is a poem which uses the same epic verse form as his Works and ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the latter an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic. Virgil, along with his ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 – December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 11:01, 11 April 2024
- . He is noted to have written a few sermons, an epic poem on the Redemption (Occupatio) which appears in several books edited by Swoboda, 1900, and ...3 KB (519 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- the French Revolution and began writing an epic poem Joan of Arc (published ... Chatterton; and he also published two epic poems Thalaba the Destroyer ...13 KB (2,061 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- Priam's Troy, validating Homer's epic. Blegen, thus, contributed ... evidence of the historical accuracy of the epic. Additionally, his findings ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. It tells the story of dragon-slayer Siegfried ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:27, 14 November 2022
- ==In the Epic of Ba'al == [[Image:Baal thunderbolt Louvre AO15775 ... A primary source for our knowledge concerning Yam is the Epic of Baal ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Compiled from Finnish ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- achievements in this field are the national epic Kalevipoeg (Son of Kalev) ... in folklore imitate the epics: The national epic Kalevipoeg was compiled by ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
- Artists (1962 - 1965) Musicor (1965 - 1971) Epic (1971 - 1991) MCA Nashville ... together live. Jones followed Wynette to Epic Records, where producer Billy ...25 KB (3,678 words) - 17:03, 20 May 2024
- Retrieved April 18, 2022. This left The Epic of Wheat trilogy unfinished ... The Epic of Wheat trilogy: * Octopus: A Story of California (1901) ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 05:06, 9 April 2024
- of his generation; he openly mocked the epic style of ancient poetry, criticizing ... there are seven hymns and one mini-epic, or epillion, dealing with ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
