Epic

EPIC English Adjective en dated en epic relating to epic poems. en 1882 1880 w:François Lenormant 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 331 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YTMqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA331 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. en 1890 November w:Andrew Lang At the Sign of the Ship Longman's Magazine Longman’s Magazine 17 97 107 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MBkAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107 Egil's Saga Egil’s Saga, I think, one cannot at present obtain at all, and the Laxdæla saga 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. en 1919 C. Delisle Burns Cecil Delisle Burns Greek Ideals: A Study of Social Life 99 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. Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek. en 1880 1855 w:Georg Friedrich Schömann E. G. Hard; J. S. Mann The Antiquities of Greece 1 66 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IAC3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA66 Every grc δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (grc πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united en 1957 H. J. Rose Herbert Jennings Rose A Commentary on the Surviving Plays of Aeschylus 94, note 80 The first syllable is lengthened, as the antistrophic line shows, an Epic scansion in accordance with the Epic phrase en 2006 Encyclopedia of India 2 188 It commonly signifies the indigenous religion(s) of South Asia, now increasingly called by the Epic term Sanātana Dharma (eternal religion). Noun en epic extended narrative poem; especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics. en 1881 “Pekin” [Louis Kossuth Lawrie] In the C.P.; or, Sketches in Prose & in Verse, Descriptive of Scenes and Manners in the Central Provinces of India 180 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0wwPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180 He calls for a special kind of instrument, bearing a name which smacks of the Norse Epics—a “Nibling.” en 1882 Hilary Term: Senior Sophisters—Modern Literature Dublin Examination Papers 12 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LamCHaaMAm0C&pg=PA12 Compare Milton’s Epics with the other great Epics of the world. en a. 1902 Aubrey Thomas de Vere Aubrey de Vere The Reception of the Early Poems w:Hallam Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son 1905 511 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gXXWexwa2OQC&pg=PA511 The “Idylls of the King,” more of a complete Epic than any of the great Epics, showed how high is that aim which every commonwealth of men is bound to propose to itself; en 1956 Denys Page Denys L. Page History and the Homeric Iliad 222 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WLJgydWTaoAC&pg=PA222 The Epic has a continuous history from the Mycenaean era to the making of the Iliad. en 1992 Varghese Malpan A Comparative Study of the Bhagavad-Gītā and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola on the Process of Spiritual Liberation 43 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cSy_BSaO2BwC&pg=PA43 This conciliatory approach to the Gītā is a clear enough indication of its being influenced by the world of the Epics to which it belongs. Anagrams en ceip ECPI pice