https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7 What is an epic? en-us 2019-03-28 19:11:19 UTC 2019-04-01 21:08:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Trireme.jpg 544967 https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347379619  Epics are a type of story ]]> 2019-04-01 20:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347379619 545015 https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347379669 "Epics are long narrative poems that tell of the adventures of heroes who in some way embody the values of their civilizations"]]> 2019-04-01 20:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347379669 547709 https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347383806 "The Odyssey is the model for the epic of the long journey. The theme of the journey has been basic in Western literature—it is found in fairy tales, in such novels"]]> 2019-04-01 20:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347383806 https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347385148 Still, for all the epics written since Homer’s time and for all the ones composed before it, when people in the Western world think of the word epic, they think primarily of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Rome’s Aeneid, France’s Song of Roland, Italy’s The Divine Comedy, the ancient]]> 2019-04-01 20:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/beachood/epicsandvalues7/wish/347385148