Epic
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Dated Alternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”).
- But the absolute isolation which marks the narrative of the Bundehesh, not a trace of any analogous record being found either in the Zend-Avesta or in the Epic tradition, as collected by Firdouzi, Ḫamza, and the other writers of the Musselman epoch, is of a nature to inspire great doubts in regard to its character as a genuine Iranian legend.1882 [1880], François Lenormant, translated by Francis Brown, The Beginnings of History According to the Bible and the Traditions of the Oriental Peoples: From the Creation of Man to the Deluge, page 331:
- Egil’s Saga, I think, one cannot at present obtain at all, and the Saga of the Laxdale men I only possess in Latin. These and the rest are truly Epic narratives, the Odysseys of a ruder race than the Achæans.1890 November, Andrew Lang, “At the Sign of the Ship”, in Longman’s Magazine, volume 17, number 97, page 107:
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- We shall speak, therefore, of the Epic tradition as an already established fact, and we shall discuss it only from the point of view of the fifth and fourth centuries in Athens.1919, Cecil Delisle Burns, Greek Ideals: A Study of Social Life, page 99:
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Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.
- Every δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united […]1880 [1855], Georg Friedrich Schömann, translated by E. G. Hard and J. S. Mann, The Antiquities of Greece, volume 1, page 66:
- The first syllable is lengthened, as the antistrophic line […] shows, an Epic scansion in accordance with the Epic phrase […]1957, Herbert Jennings Rose, A Commentary on the Surviving Plays of Aeschylus […], page 94, note 80:
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- It commonly signifies the indigenous religion(s) of South Asia, now increasingly called by the Epic term Sanātana Dharma (eternal religion).2006, Encyclopedia of India, volume 2, page 188: