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Epos

noun

A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme.

A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds. Synonyms: epic, epic poem, heroic poem.

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... action—is impossible; to a method thus reticent and severe drama—the expression of emotion in action—is improper. 'Not here, O Apollo!' It is written that none shall bind his brows with the twin laurels of epos and drama. Shakespeare did not, nor could Homer; and how ...

— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

... in the Odyssey the tragic story of Agamemnon, the great Leader of the Greeks at Troy. An awe-inspiring tale of destiny; out of it AEschylus will develop his great tragedy, the Oresteia. Indeed the epos develops into tragedy with the full mythical unfolding of this story. AEschylus will deepen the motives into internal collisions; he will show the right and the wrong in Agamemnon, and even in Clytemnestra. Orestes, however beneficent his deed in ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

Words linked to "Epos" : odyssey, chanson de geste, verse form, poem, Divine Comedy, verse, heroic poem, poetry, heroic, heroic verse, heroic meter, Nibelungenlied, Aeneid, poesy, Divina Commedia, Iliad, epic, rhapsody