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Noun Concept
Categories: Adventure fiction, Narrative poems, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Epic poetry
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heroic poetry  epic poetry  epic poem  Epic  Ancient epic poetry
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Poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero WordNet 3.0
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Poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. Wikipedia
A long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation Wikipedia Disambiguation
Lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds Wikidata
IS A
poetry
literary genre
narrative poetry
epic literature
verse poetry
HAS PART
DE
Katalog
HAS KIND
chanson de geste
monogatari
duma
Olonkho
epyllion
+10 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Aeneid
Beowulf
Iliad
The Cantos
Pan Tadeusz
+121 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
MODEL ITEM
Iliad
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
epic poem
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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heroic poetry, epic poetry
Wikipedia
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epic poetry
Wikidata
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epic poem
Wikipedia Redirections
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Ancient epic poetry, Epic Ballad, epic hero, epic literature, epic poems, epic poet, Epic Poetry, epic poets, Epopee, heroic epic, heroic poetry, History of epic poetry
Wikidata Alias
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Epic, epic, epic poetry

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