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| | EPIC POETRY - LoveToKnow Article on EPIC POETRY |
 | | Other epic writers, who appear to be undoubtedly historic, are Antimachus of Colophon, who wrote a Thebais; Panyasis, who, like Peisander, celebrated the feats of Heracles; Choerilus of Samos; and Anyte, of whom we only know that she was an epic poetess, and was called The female Homer. | | | Teutonic epic poetry deals, as a rule, with legends founded on the history of Germany in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, and in particular with such heroes as Ermanaric, Attila and Theodoric. | | | Unfortunately, the earliest critic who describes this process is Proclus, a Byzantine neo-Platonist, who did not write until some 800 years later, when the whole tradition had become hopelessly corrupted. |
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| | Epic poetry - definition of Epic poetry in Encyclopedia |
| | This assumed historicity is important for distinguishing epic from other long narrative forms such as allegory. | | | 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. | | | Thirdly, epic poems always deal with persons and events that are considered to be historically real by the poet and their audience. |
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| | Serbian epic poetry Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com |
| | Slavic antithesis: There two pines were growing together, and among them one thin-topped fir; neither there were just some two green pines nor among them one thin-topped fir, but those two were just some two born brothers one is Pavle, other is Radule and among them little sis' Jelena. | | | Of course, modern songs sing about modern events and people, such as Kosovo war or Radovan Karadzic. | | | There are new songs that mimic Serbian epic poetry, but are humorous and not epic in nature; these are also circulating around with no known author. |
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