In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls " poetry " ( a term which in Greek literally means " making " and in this context includes drama — comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play — as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb ).

As with the principle of dramatic construction involved in the epic form of written drama amalgamated or what Brecht calls " non-Aristotelian drama ", the epic approach to play production utilizes a montage technique of fragmentation, contrast and contradiction, and interruptions.

It essentially calls upon the cleric's deity to perform an epic miracle, such as resurrecting an entire army or lifting a massive curse.

The logographers, though they worked within the same mythic tradition, were distinct from the epic poets of the Trojan War cycle because they wrote in prose, in a non-periodic style which Aristotle ( Rhetoric, 1049a 29 ) calls λέξις εἰρομένη ( lexis eiromenê, from εἴρω, eiro, ' attach, join up '), that is, a " continuous " or " running " style.

In the performance on their Live at Leeds album Townshend calls the 9 minute " epic " track a " mini-opera " and introduces it as " Tommy's parent ".

Thorkild Jacobsen has studied the pre-Babylonian Mesopotamia and uses Sumerian epic, myth and historical records to identify what he calls primitive democracy.

She is left nameless in Chrétien's unfinished romance, but Wolfram von Eschenbach, who reworked the tale for the German epic Parzival, calls her Orgeluse ( taken from Orgueilleuse, the French word for " haughty ").

Doyle, in an epic foot chase of Charnier sailing out of Marseille Harbor on his yacht, takes his gun out, calls his name, and finally shoots Charnier dead.

Aristotle, calls Choerilus ' comparisons far-fetched and obscure, and the Alexandrians displaced him by Antimachus in the canon of epic poets.

Crowne have proposed the idea that the poem was passed down from reciter to reciter under the theory of oral-formulaic composition, which hypothesises that epic poems were ( at least to some extent ) improvised by whoever was reciting them.

Homer also altered the forms of words to allow them to fit the hexameter, typically by using a dialectal form: ptolis is an epic form used instead of the Attic polis wherever it is necessary for the meter.

In the later Babylonian epic Enûma Eliš, Abzu, the " begetter of the gods ", is inert and sleepy but finds his peace disturbed by the younger gods, so sets out to destroy them.

In the Hervarar saga, the Goths make first contact with the bow-wielding Huns and meet them in an epic battle on the plains of the Danube.

Tremendous resources were devoted to filming this epic, even diverting tens of thousands of troops from the front lines to have them serve as extras in battle scenes.

The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa ; Marco was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Initially they found it difficult to score the series as the plot itself was still being reworked around the new concept, but the plot changes were finished in time for them to prepare the score and give the film the desired final " epic touch.

As in his painting of the apocalypse by water ( Composition VI ), Kandinsky puts the viewer in the situation of experiencing these epic myths by translating them into contemporary terms ( with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency, and confusion ).

In the show's final episode " Chosen ", Buffy shares her power with her fellow Slayers before leading them into an epic battle against an army of Turok-Han vampires.

Aside from its treatment of unnamed rank-and-file Rakshasas, the epic tells the stories of certain members of the race who rose to prominence, some of them as heroes, most of them as villains.

Several of the best known Minnesingers are also noted for their epic poetry, among them Heinrich von Veldeke, Wolfram von Eschenbach and Hartmann von Aue.

In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, she gives birth to the first generation of deities ; she later makes war upon them and is killed by the storm-god Marduk.

The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish is named for its incipit: " When above " the heavens did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, " the first, the begetter ", and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, " she who bore them all "; they were " mixing their waters ".

For them, it was considered de rigueur for the members of the family to have personal copies of the epic poem.

The allay epic songs have been accurately described by the Turkologist N. Baskakov who divides them into three main types:

This epic poem details how angelic beings ( probably Kuei Jin ) betrayed their original purpose and became blood-drinking demons ; to balance them out, the Gods brought back to life a man who had been wronged by these asuratziyya more than any other.

* The mention of Huns in his epic poem, Raghuvaṃśa, could be a veiled reference to the victory over them in 455 of Kumāragupta's son and successor, Skandagupta.

He contended that these " streamliners ", as he called them, would be useful in double-feature situations where the main attraction was a longer-length epic.

A key theme of the chansons de geste, which set them off from the romances ( which tended to explore the role of the " individual "), is their critique and celebration of community / collectivity ( their epic heroes are portrayed as figures in the destiny of the nation and Christianity ) and their representation of the complexities of feudal relations and service.

This improvisation is for the most part unconscious ; epic tellers believe that they are faithfully recounting the story as it was handed down to them, even though the actual text of their tellings will differ substantially from day to day and from teller to teller.

When still hardly fifteen he was already the author of numerous metrical translations from Ovid, Horace and Virgil, as well as of original lyrics, dramas, and an epic of four thousand lines on the origin of the Swiss confederations, writings which he is said on one occasion to have rescued from a fire at the risk of his life, only, however, to burn them a little later ( 1729 ) with his own hand.

Much of the early scholarly study of runo-song was done in the 1860s by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, who used them to compose the Estonian national epic, Kalevipoeg.

The epic Mahabharata describes them as forest-dwelling, and mentions their being encountered by Sahadeva, a Pandava general who led a military campaign to south India.

The epic poems, the consolidation of the Greek pantheon, the rise of firm political units, the self-awareness which could permit painted and sculptured representations of men -- all these had to await the progress of following decades.

True, we do not know how they were regarded in their day, but we need not believe the epic audience to have been more insensitive to the formulas than the numerous scholars of modern times who have read Germanic or Homeric poetry all their lives and still found much to admire in occasional occurrences of the most familiar phrases.

The author of the Book of Revelation writes about God and the angels versus Satan and demons in an epic battle at the end of times when all souls are judged.

Many of the Ainu dialects, even from one end of Hokkaido to the other, were not mutually intelligible ; however, the classic Ainu language of the Yukar, or Ainu epic stories, was understood by all.

* epimorphism ( or epic ) if implies for all morphisms.

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

Griffith applied all the ideas for film staging that he had worked out in his Biograph films to a bigoted white southerner's epic view of the Civil War and its aftermath.

It is his noble and powerful style, sustained through every change of idea and subject, that finally separates Homer from all forms of ballad poetry and popular epic.

The surviving works and fragments were all written in the conventional metre and language of epic.

In Norway, the historian Edvard Bull famously proclaimed that " we have to give up all illusions that Snorri's mighty epic bears any deeper resemblance to what actually happened " in the time it describes.

Dante's epic poems, known collectively as the Commedia, to which another Tuscan poet Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title Divina, were read throughout Italy and his written dialect became the " canonical standard " that all educated Italians could understand.

In the final epic showdown between all the heroes of Earth and the combined might of the resurrected Goblyn Force, Dracula, and the Beyonder, Ice-Man was one of the few to survive.

In the Mesopotamian epics, Atrahasis ( Utnapishtim ) is glorified as a hero for his epic deeds of building and loading the ark, whereas Genesis simply says, “ Noah did all that the LORD commanded him .” Obedience to God, not human courage, is the focus in the later Genesis narrative.

Rose wrote that the myth of Pandora is decidedly more illiberal than that of epic in that it makes Pandora the origin of all of Man's woes with her being the exemplification of the bad wife.

Prokofiev had been considering making an opera out of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, when news of the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 made the subject seem all the more timely.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

The reign was notable for the building of a second empire based in India, Asia and Africa, the beginnings of the industrial revolution that made Britain an economic powerhouse, and above all the life and death struggle with the French, the French Revolutionary Wars 1793-1802, ending in a draw and a short truce, and the epic Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815, ending with the decisive defeat of Napoleon.

However, for all its self-consciousness and researched archaic vocabulary, the late epic was based on very old, scattered materials.

His epic, The War The Infantry Knew, has become a classic among military historians for its comprehensive treatment of all aspects of daily life and death in the trenches.

In category theory, an epimorphism ( also called an epic morphism or, colloquially, an epi ) is a morphism f: X → Y which is right-cancellative in the sense that, for all morphisms,

" By the mid -' 60s, the superheroes were back in full force " with Mighty Comics Presents and The Mighty Crusaders, featuring " all of Archie's superhero characters teaming up for epic adventures " under the new imprint Mighty Comics ( alternately known as Radio Comics ).

The Middle High German epic poem Nibelungenlied is based largely on the old stories, which were commonly known in all of the Germanic lands from the early Middle Ages on, but reworks the material into a courtly medieval setting.

A single early appearance of Zagreus is in a quoted line from the lost epic Alkmeonis, written in the sixth century BC if not earlier: " Mistress Earth and Zagreus who art above all other gods.

The epic poem Alcmeonis as well as the Alcmaeon of Sophocles, and those of Agathon and Achaeus, have all been lost.