Search results for "Epic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- composing On the Nature of Things, an epic poem, in six books, designed ... Bracciolini rediscovered Lucretius’ epic, On the Nature of Things, ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- and greatest warrior of Homer's epic poem Iliad, which takes for ... Also, in the fragmentary poems of the Epic Cycle in which we can find ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish in which the ... htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian creation epic)] *[https://www.uniguide ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), an epic poem about the self ... energy. In Paris, Ginsberg finished his epic poem Kaddish, Corso composed ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- in the more narrative-based direction of epic poetry. It is primarily this ... the propaganda needs of the Soviet regime. Epic poems, such as "Vladimir ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- In his late career, his masterpiece, the epic poem Faust, would become so ... and most powerful masterpiece, the epic dramatic poem Faust. Goethe ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- previous measures in Greek poetry had been the epic hexameter, and its offshoot—the elegiac meter—but the slow measured structure of hexameter verse ...8 KB (1,240 words) - 06:18, 12 August 2023
- In the ancient Celtic epic The Ulster Cycle, the Morrígan (a Celtic war goddess) is seen in the role of a Bean Nighe. When the hero Cúchulainn ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 07:29, 20 September 2023
- in the usual dialect of elegy, Ionic with an epic coloring, were intended partly for public and partly for private monuments. There is strength ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- with his second offering, the multi-volume epic originally titled The October ... has the stamina to produce a magnificent epic of American life." ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- mythic literature like Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Besides their ... of his reign. Art critics indicate that the epic quality of these bas-reliefs ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- Sumerian gods, and the older Sumerian myths and epic tales were piously copied, translated, or adapted. Mesopotamian religion continued its evolution ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- in some art, especially warfare. In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the protagonist princes of ancient Ayodhya, Rama and Laxman, go to the Rishi Vishvamitra ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 04:45, 18 August 2023
- in the world. While it is clearly a poetic epic, it contains large tracts ... *Oinas, Felix J. 1978. Heroic epic and saga an introduction to the ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- a character from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. Utnapishtim ... * Best, Robert M. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic. Enlil Press ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade (Šahrzād in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- he saved two match points before winning in five epic sets, and an even more impressive 11-9, 6-3, 11-9 victory at the U.S. Championships, an event that ...8 KB (1,243 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- characters who appear in the Indian epic Ramayana. In the Indian epic Mahābhārata, the Kuru heir Parikṣit was enthroned ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters; among the best known are her novels The Bluest ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- often at war with the East Mongols. The Oirat epic song, The Rout of Mongolian Shulum Ubushi Khong Tayiji, tells about the war between the Oirats and ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
