concept

Epic

Words

A long heroic narrative in verse or high prose. Not saga as the northern prose kin, and not mythos as the story-world word.

Hellenic religion

  • Epic appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad is a long Hellenic heroic epic in verse. A named epic genre in that poem, not saga as northern prose kin and not mythos as the story-world word.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.