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- [[Image:Beowulf.firstpage.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|The Old English epic ... early Germanic languages. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- as well as Rigvedic dialogue hymns and the Indian epic Mahabharata, while in the west, literary historians commonly suppose that Plato (c. 427 B.C.E ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/4872348.stm Epic explorer crosses frozen sea ... * Russell, Dick. Eye of the Whale; Epic Passage From Baja to Siberia ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- ===Epic literature=== Arabic epic literature [[Image:Maler der Geschichte ... is usually placed in the genre of Arabic epic literature along with several ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- period, the lyric, ariel, historical, and epic poem was being developed. ===The English epic=== Even without the introduction of Neo-classical ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- the modern Turkish people—and the Manas epic of the Kyrgyz people. ... It is composed of three basic genres: epic, folk poetry, and folklore. ...56 KB (8,547 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- During World War Two, Adams worked on creating epic photographic murals for the United States Department of the Interior. Distressed by the Japanese ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- | Label = Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, ANTI | | Associated_acts = | URL = Official Website | | Notable_instruments ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 10:32, 10 March 2023
- of these large-scale compositions on the epic poems of his countryman, poet ... Water Goblin," are based on the epic poems of his countryman, poet ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- his era. His signature song, "El Paso," an epic story of a gunfighter who dies in the arms of the woman for whom he has killed a man, has become ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- * Hei'an Zhuan (Epic of Darkness) is the only collection of legends in epic form preserved by a community of the Han ethnicity of China ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- was also inspired by Griffith's Civil War epic. use of large sets, elaborate costumes, and epic-sized scenes and scenery, ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- Milton, and all the other great epic dramatists of England would ... His other works include the first book of the minor epic Hero and ...25 KB (3,850 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- with one of the sections of T.S. Eliot's epic poem Four Quartets, in which Eliot was directly alluding to Ferrar's community and the metaphysical ...9 KB (1,501 words) - 16:52, 20 May 2024
- period. Cilappatikaram and its companion epic Manimekalai are Buddhist in ... III. Ramavatharam is the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although ...33 KB (4,960 words) - 00:53, 21 April 2023
- creation narrative and that of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, such as the ... this was probably copied from the Akkadian epic, Atra-Hasis, which dates from ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- Though Beethoven wrote important religious music (including the epic Missa Solemnis), it is his groundbreaking Ninth Symphony, of which the finale ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- education, taught him to read Homer's epic poem, the Iliad, in the original Greek. Kenneth Baker.[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi ...21 KB (2,963 words) - 14:58, 21 May 2024
- Parmenides wrote On Nature, and presented his philosophy in an epic poem written in hexameter verse, the same poetic form as the works of Homer ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- that in Mesopotamian culture depicted an epic battle of gods. The Greeks later renamed the constellation for its depiction of a man riding a ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
