Search results for "Epic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The world's oldest epic poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, evidences ... *Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic. Harvard University ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Ancient Greek literature is famous for its epic and lyric poetry as well as ... Most of the epic poetry and tragedy has its roots in Ancient Greek ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- of the Mediterranean were very dangerous and the epic literature of the times reflected this awe and fear of the sea. It is most probable that out of ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or Mesopotamian creation epic, composed probably in the eighteenth century B ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- most popular poem. It is a mock-heroic epic, written to make fun of a ... poem, The Rape of the Lock, is a mock epic. That is, it describes the ...16 KB (2,637 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- as the father and king of the gods. In the Epic of Gilgamesh it is to Anu ... Erech) in southern Babylonia. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ishtar appeals ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Robert MacAndrew Best, Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian ... * Best, Robert MacAndrew. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- Italian and Florentine poet. His greatest work, the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary statement produced in medieval Europe. ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 22:11, 25 January 2024
- the author achieved national celebrity. An epic recounting the war between ... Nobel Prize for lifetime achievement as an epic writer. In the acceptance ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 08:01, 22 January 2024
- concerned with heroes and villains, epic battles, and great feats of ... depict events of long ago and persons of epic proportion. However, myths ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry, Bible translations ... English poetry. It has achieved national epic status in British literary ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- had a string of incestuous affairs. In the epic Enki and Ninhursag, he and ... In the Sumerian epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, an incantation ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- quot; (the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic, and lyric poetry): All types of narrate events, he argues, but by differing means. He distinguishes ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- * “You Can’t Dance” / “It’s Another Day” (Epic 50458) * “Gimme a Little Sign” / “Something You Can’t Buy” (Epic 50501) ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- century (between 1140 and 1170). The epic poem is the first and most ... date of the first written version of the epic, is that (according to somewhat ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- *In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton made Gabriel chief of ... *In the epic poem The Song of Roland, Gabriel instructs Frankish King ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- popular with seventeenth century readers. His epic poem, La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), was said to have influenced John Milton's own ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- reached the Mediterranean Sea after an epic 148 day journey, becoming ... * Bangs, Richard, and Pasquale Scaturro. Mystery of the Nile: The ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- The Nagas make numerous appearances in the great Hindu epic called the Mahabharata, though their depiction tends to be negative, and they are ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
