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Kush Nama, a Persian epic recounting the story of Kush the Tusked and Abtin. Faramarz-nama, a story about the Persian hero Faramarz; The Garshasp-nama of Asadi Tusi, a Persian epic about the hero Garshasp; Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran and world's longest epic poetry written by one poet; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire (1756) Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic.
Epic (noun) refers to a long poem, book, movie, etc. that tells the story of a hero 's adventures. [4] The earliest epics were long poems performed out loud that told these grandiose stories about heroes. Today, in modern society, the word epic has been expanded and associated with all kinds of long literatures that still underlyingly focus on ...
The epic employs the story within a story structure, otherwise known as frametales, popular in many Indian religious and non-religious works. It is first recited at Takshashila by the sage Vaisampayana , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] a disciple of Vyasa, to the King Janamejaya who was the great-grandson of the Pandava prince Arjuna .
Adhiratha was the foster-father of Karna. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Adhiratha was descended from Yayati and therefore was related to Krishna.He was also the descendant of Romapada, [2] the king of Anga and brother-in-law of Dasharatha's descendant Shighra, king of Ayodhya.His wife was Radha and their biological sons were shon and shatrunjay/chitrasen.
The English word epic comes from Latin epicus, which itself comes from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos), [2] "word, story, poem." [3]In ancient Greek, 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, and the strange theological verses ...
t. e. The Epic Cycle ( Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized : Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes ...