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Definition of Epics
1. epic [n] - See also: epic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epics
Literary usage of Epics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homer and the Epic by Andrew Lang (1893)
"The lost epics dealt with a large number of topics, but here we are mainly
concerned with those about the Trojan War, and the heroes who fought under Troy. ..."
2. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"For other English epics or epical narratives, see such poems as those mentioned
... X. Gaelic epics. For a catalogue of the epic literature of Ireland, ..."
3. The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1901)
"INTERRELATION OF THE TWO epics. OF the two early epics of India, ... As the
relation between the two Hindu epics, especially in point of age, has often been ..."
4. An Outline of the Religious Literature of India by John Nicol Farquhar (1920)
"The first and the last of the three are atheistic, and it is practically certain
that at this date the Yoga was so also. iii. The epics. ..."
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