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    The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and...
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    The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. The...
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    Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The cycle depicts...
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    Odysseus (redirect from EPIC: The Musical)
    the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle. As the son of Laërtes...
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    forming the so-called Epic Cycle (only fragments survive) Oedipodea, Thebaid, Epigoni and Alcmeonis, forming the so-called Theban Cycle (only fragments survive)...
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    Slav Epic cycle No.9: The Meeting at Křížky (1916) Mucha's The Slav Epic cycle No.10: After the Battle of Grunewald (1924) Mucha's The Slav Epic cycle No...
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    accompanying the epic poetry is the gusle. Serbian epic poetry helped in developing the Serbian national consciousness. The cycles of Prince Marko, the...
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  • Homeric Greek (redirect from Epic Greek)
    written form influenced by Attic. It was later named Epic Greek because it was used as the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets...
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    The Theban Cycle (Greek: Θηβαϊκὸς Κύκλος) is a collection of four lost epics of ancient Greek literature which tells the mythological history of the Boeotian...
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    Homer (redirect from Homeric epic)
    Jonathan S. (2003). The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle. JHU Press. pp. 49–53. ISBN 978-0801874819. Powell, Barry B. (1996). Homer...
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