Epic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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EPIC long, exalted narrative poem, usually on a serious...figure. The earliest epics, known as primary, or original, epics, were shaped from the...foundation of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, of the...Literary, or secondary, epics, written in conscious...