Epic poetry

:For other meanings of epic, see epic (disambiguation).

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The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. In the West, the Iliad, Odyssey and Nibelungenlied; and in the East, the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Shahnama are often cited as examples of the epic genre.

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Genre - Poetry - Iliad - Odyssey - Nibelungenlied - Mahabharata - Ramayana - Shahnama

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