He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War.

Epic narrative allowed poets like Homer no opportunity for personal revelations but Hesiod's extant work comprises didactic poems and here he went out of his way to let his audience in on a few details of his life, including three explicit references in Works and Days, as well as some passages in his Theogony that support inferences.

It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

Epic poems included the Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus, the Thebaid of Statius, and the Punica of Silius Italicus.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Numerous scholars have drawn attention to various themes, episodes, and verses, that indicate a substantial influence of the Epic of Gilgamesh on both of the epic poems ascribed to Homer.

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Epic poetry continued to develop with the addition of the mythologies of Northern Europe: Beowulf and the Norse sagas have much in common with Homer and Virgil's approaches to war and honor, while poems such as Dante's Divine Comedy and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales take much different stylistic directions.

At the time, Eliade became acquainted with Saadi's poems and the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Epic poems are shared often by people across political borders and across generations.

Ancient epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Odyssey and the Mahābhārata use similar narrative techniques as modern thrillers.

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In this country those who still wrote epic poems, following the rules set by Torquato Tasso in his work Discorsi del poema eroico ( Discussions about the Epic Poems ) and realized in his masterwork, the Jerusalem Delivered, were felt as antiquated.

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Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 5, Acts 27: 42, Isaiah 25: 11 ), Beowulf, and other sagas.

* Fresco Cycle of Bolivar's Epic by Fernando Leal, at Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico

Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest preserved Epic poetry | epic poem in Castilian language.

* In the Epic of Gilgamesh, hero Enkidu is appalled by King Gilgamesh's use of droit de seigneur at wedding ceremonies.

Boniface's youthful exploits in the late 1170s are recalled in the famous Epic Letter, " Valen marques, senher de Monferrat ", by his good friend and court troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras.

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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca.

* French comic book authors Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud had their western hero Lieutenant Blueberry explore for the Lost Dutchman's mine in the 1972 albums La mine de l ' Allemand perdu and Le Spectre aux balles d ' or ( English title was Marshall Blueberry: The Lost Dutchman's Mine, Epic 1991 ).

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca.

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* de Rachewiltz, Igor, The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century, Brill, 2004

In December 2004 he released a book titled La Epopeya de la Insurrección ( Epic of the Insurrection ).

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During her tenure with Epic Records, Amos also released a retrospective collection titled Tales of a Librarian ( 2003 ) through her former label, Atlantic Records ; a two-disc DVD set Fade to Red ( 2006 ) containing most of Amos's solo music videos, released through the Warner Bros. reissue imprint Rhino ; a five disc box set titled A Piano: The Collection ( 2006 ), celebrating Amos's 15 year solo career through remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes, demos, and a string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions, also released through Rhino ; and numerous official bootlegs from two world tours, The Original Bootlegs ( 2005 ) and Legs & Boots ( 2007 ) through Epic Records.

Four songs have been featured in the Rock Band video game series, two as downloadable content: " Epic " appeared on the first Rock Band ( game ) and " We Care a Lot " was offered as a download.

Epic folk songs are the most important form of vocal folk music in Norway.

" Shine " and a track entitled " Got You Home " were previously unreleased songs on The Ultimate Luther Vandross, a greatest hits album on Epic Records / J Records / Legacy Recordings that was released August 22, 2006.

Jeff Christie kept the group's name alive well into 1973 with replacement members, and cut songs for Mercury Records in the mid 1970s — he kept using the group name as an alias on material recorded for the Epic and Wizard, and took back his full name for records on the RK label in the 1980s.

In live shows, Cyrus Erie mainly covered other artists ' songs, but signed to Epic Records and recorded two Carmen / Bryson originals (" Get the Message " b / w " Sparrow ") as a single.

Perhaps the only book relating the epic songs of the Ainu in English is Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu by Donald L. Philippi.

On April 22, 2008, Sony / BMG, Epic, and Ode released the 2-disc Legacy Edition of Tapestry, featuring the original album fully remastered, and a bonus disc of live vocal / piano renditions of 11 of the 12 songs on the album recorded between 1973 ( in Boston, Massachusetts ; Columbia, Maryland ; and Central Park, New York City, New York ) and in 1976 ( at the San Francisco Opera House, San Francisco, California ).

In 1992 he signed to Epic and released Intoxifornication, which consisted largely of re-released songs from Michigan Rain and was again ignored.

Though most of the songs were billed as ' Andre Williams and the Don Juans ' ( on Epic in 1956 billed as ' Andre Mr Rhythm Williams and his New Group '), " Bacon Fat " and " Jail Bait " were solo efforts.

Spanning the years from 1994 to 2000, this is a collection of the biggest hits and some live tracks from their Atlantic and Epic Records era, therefore it does not contain any songs from Bad Religion's first seven full-length albums, or their then-current album The Process of Belief.

Epic Records could not obtain the right to release the original recordings of these two songs, so Donovan rerecorded them in May 1968 with a full backing band and Mickie Most's lavish production.

Ginn and Gone returned in 2007 with The Epic Trilogy, a double CD consisting of 3 lengthy tracks ( disc one featured instrumental versions of the songs and disc two featured guest vocals from Bad Brains vocalist H. R .).

Epic poems and songs about the exploits of enchanted folk heroes medusa were performed during festivities and proper occasions.

The album has songs by the band from their switch to Epic for their 1989 reformation, until they left the label in 2003.

The album released on June 3, 1997 features songs originally released on both the Epic and MCA labels, as well as three previously unreleased recordings (" Higher Power ", " Tell Me ", and " The Star-Spangled Banner ").

The planned release of a soundtrack album on Epic Records was cancelled due to the clearance problems with some of the songs.

In 1973 he began a solo career that would eventually land him a contract with Epic Records in Nashville and later with MCA Records who released a critically acclaimed solo album, Patriotic Duty, in 1980 Stoner also recorded an album of his original songs for Sun Records in the early 1980s.