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- Male Madeshwara: a Kannada oral epic, as sung by Hebbani Madayya ... Male Madeshwara: a Kannada oral epic, as sung by Hebbani Madayya ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- by the sage Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata epic. In Sanskrit, Vyasa means "Divider," and some scholars have interpreted this to mean ...11 KB (1,583 words) - 23:49, 2 December 2022
- Traditional epic poetry included improvisational moments where the reciter flattered the audience (especially the authorities) or substituted ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- the title of Langland's Middle English epic. It is written in unrhymed ... more an instructional poem rather than an epic story in the vein of Dante ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic ...12 KB (1,766 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- took by siege. Alexander fought an epic battle against the Indian monarch Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes (326). After that victory, Alexander ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 07:42, 25 May 2024
- in terms of sacrifice, it was during the Epic period that concepts of tapas ... in epic literature is known by many names, including Pārvatī ...43 KB (6,555 words) - 20:31, 21 April 2021
- ===The Epic Period=== Between 400 B.C.E. and 400 C.E. came the age ... The great Tamil epic, Silappatikaram (c. 100 C.E.) was one of several ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- Apsaras appear in important supporting roles. The epic contains several lists of the principal Apsaras, which lists are not always identical. One such ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- clockwise-sequenced reliefs (sequence of epic scenes) on the outside temple ... Ramayana and Mahabharata in temple art. The epic frieze constitutes the most ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- death of Ubasi Khun Tayishi around 1627. The Oirat epic song, "The Rout of Mongolian Shulum Ubushi Khong Tayiji," tells about the war between ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
- Nagarakertagama is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit ... the Majapahit capital from the Old Javanese epic poem Nagarakertagama). ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- oldest known literary sources, Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey ... mythical tradition are Homer's two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey ...45 KB (6,635 words) - 21:33, 28 May 2024
- Gal Beckerman, When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic ... * Beckerman, Gal. When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic ...24 KB (3,406 words) - 16:05, 28 November 2023
- indeed, his work has been styled the "Epic of Despotism." He does not hesitate to avow his admiration of Ivan the Terrible, and considers ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- The text known as "Epic of the King of the Battle" depicts Sargon advancing deep into the heart of Asia Minor to protect merchants ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- John M. Barry. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest ... * Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- Aristotle, in Poetics, contrasted lyric poetry with drama and epic ... the Neoteric poets who had turned away from epic poetry to more personal themes ...22 KB (3,069 words) - 23:36, 26 July 2021
- over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction. == History == Shklovsky introduced the concept of defamiliarization ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2020
- second-ranking of the many fallen cherubim in his epic poem, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. Milton wrote of Beelzebub: "Than whom, Satan ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
