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Overview/History of epic poem

earliest works of epic poetry, dating back to the 18th century B.C. Consisting of Sumerian poems, it's a text that was discovered through many different Babylonian tablet versions during archaeological excavations.

Purpose of epic poetry

"epic is a long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes typically a poem like certain formal characteristics."

Characteristics of epic poems

Usually very big poems but most epic poems hes been broke down in to multiple books.

The poet uses hyperbole to reveal the powers of a hero

Well-Known Example of epic poems

One thing that the great Iranian epic has in common with the ancients is a sense of nostalgia from a lost past. Also known as The Book of Kings, The Shahnameh looks back at the old Zoroastrian traditions in the country while chronicling the entire history of the Persian Empire from its Eurasian reign to its demise in the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. While this may seem more historical than poetic, Firdawsi drives the work forward by including vivid accounts of political intrigue and betrayal.

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Epic Poems and their roots

Epics are poems with no seemingly pattern in their writing meant to tell a grand tale or story often about a hero with amazing deeds and grand adventures. They dated back to even the very early B.C. times and be very cultural. Even often memorized before the ancients started writing them down as a way to record significant events and stories.

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History of Epic

Epic poetry began in Greece around 800 B.C. with a man named Homer who is known as the first and greatest of the epic poets who wrote two widely known epics called The Odyssey and the Iliad. A lot of the world's oldest narratives are written in epic form.

Purpose of Epic

The purpose of writing epics is to tell the story and great deeds of a hero or a legend that are significant to the poets' culture. Before writing was developed, these poems would be memorized so that they could be able to keep account of those great deeds or the history of a culture.

Characteristics

Epic has very distinct characteristics:

-The main character has a lot of significance to the people around them, is of a great historical or legend, and represents that culture's values of a race, nation or group

-Most of the time, some supernatural being or god is involved within the story

-And because that is involved, the setting of the story is very wide: across the world or the universe

-The actions of the hero consist of doing great deeds or acts of courage in battle

-Epics usually begin with elaborate descriptions, speeches, and similes.

-A story that is written in the style of a poem

-Shows a transition from a young hero to a wise ruler

Examples of Epic

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

-Excerpt from The Odyssey

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