EPIC POEMS
\ˈɛpɪk pˈə͡ʊɪmz], \ˈɛpɪk pˈəʊɪmz], \ˈɛ_p_ɪ_k p_ˈəʊ_ɪ_m_z]\
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[Gr., a word or tale.] Popular poems relating events belonging to national tradition or mythology. Such are the Iliad and Odyssey of the Greeks, the Mahabharata and Ramayana of the Hindus, the Shahnameh of Firdusi, the Nibelungen Lied of the Germans, etc.
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See Aeneid.
By Henry Percy Smith
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