noun
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a body of poetry in which the tradition of a people is conveyed, esp a group of poems concerned with a common epic theme
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another word for epic
acronym
Etymology
Origin of epos
1825–35; < Latin < Greek épos speech, tale, song; akin to Latin vōx voice, Sanskrit vácas word, hymn
Example Sentences
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What came across in the documentary as an uncomfortable mix produces a satisfying combination in an outsized epos like this one, the two impulses tempering and complementing each other.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2018
Brother Saul, a Christian epos, is aimed at men of all faiths everywhere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ionian school of epos produced a number of poems founded on the legends of the Trojan war, and intended as introductions or continuations to the Iliad and the Odyssey.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
The Homeric epos drove out poetry like Corinna's.
From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert
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