9 sentences with 'epic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word epic and other words derived from it.
• « Together, the teacher and her students had taken an epic wartime event from 42 years earlier and given it a new ending. »
• « The epic describes the adventures of a partially godlike king of the city of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who is joined by his friend Enkidu as they fight monsters, build great works and celebrate their own power and greatness. »
• « Also, a central focus of the epic is Gilgamesh's quest for immortality as he faces the absurdity of death. »
• « The central theme among the great epic stories of Egyptian religion was that there was some order and harmony in the universe that the gods had created, but which was threatened by the forces of destruction and chaos. »
• « Centuries later, the culture of the Mycenaeans would be celebrated in the epic poems (nominally written by the poet Homer, although it is likely that "Homer" is a mythical figure in itself) The Iliad and The Odyssey, which describe the exploits of great Mycenaean heroes such as Agamemnon, Achilles and Odysseus. »
• « The Mycenaeans were the protagonists of the famous epic poems written by the (possibly mythical) Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey. »
• « Homer's epic poems - The Iliad and The Odyssey - were written in this period after being recited orally by travelling singers for centuries. »
• « Likewise, both Greek myths and epic tales are full of hostility and suspicion of assertive and intelligent women, celebrating instead women who dutifully served their husbands or fathers. »
• « For a few hundred years, there was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in England that promoted learning and culture, producing extensive literature in Old English (the best preserved example of which is the epic poem Beowulf). »