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- The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... |right|250px|One of the stories in the Gilgamesh epic directly parallels ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. It is prized as one of the few living epics, performed by ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
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- Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director ...10 KB (1,538 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- Ovid and Virgil as one of the major epic poets of his times. to categorize. Although ostensibly an epic, Pharsalia is not a story ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 04:18, 4 November 2022
- Atra-Hasis, also spelled Atrahasis, is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human hero. It contains both a creation myth ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (July 2, 1724 – March 14, 1803) was a German epic and lyric poet. His more subjective approach initiated a break ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 11:03, 11 April 2024
- The Epic of Gilgamesh gives the following description of Ishtar's ... ===The Epic of Gilgamesh=== Ishtar makes important appearances in the ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- greatest achievement, The Bridge, is an epic poem written in the grand ... of America." He meant to create an epic poem that, like the poetry ...7 KB (1,109 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2022
- The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. It is prized as one of the few living epics, performed by ...21 KB (3,483 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably ... |right|250px|One of the stories in the Gilgamesh epic directly parallels ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- Persian poet. He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings), the national epic of the Persian-speaking world. He spent 35 years writing his great ...15 KB (2,389 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- 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
