BC19th century
Ramayana (Indian mythology)
65438 BC+0365438 BC+06 BC
Mahabharata (bhagavad gita is one of them) (
epic
Indian mythology)
8th century BC
Homer's Iliad (Greek mythology)
Homer's Odyssey (Greek mythology)
BC 1 century: Virgil's Aeneas (Roman epic)
9 th century
Beowulf (Celtic myth)
David of Sassoon (Armenian epic)
10 century
King Ferdowsi (Persian epic)
1 1 century
Song of Roland (French epic)
12 century
My Poetry (Spanish epic)
Igor's Expedition (Russian Epic)
The Tiger Warrior by Shao Rustavili (Georgian epic)
13rd century
Ada (Norse mythology)
Sagar (Nordic epic)
Song of Nibelungen (German folklore)
Biography of King Gesar (Tibetan epic)
14th century
Dante's divine comedy
Angry Orlando by Ludwig Ariosto
Edmund spenser's The Fairy Tale Queen.
John milton's Paradise Lost.
19th century
Jose hernandez's Gauchos Martin Fiero (1872) and Martin Fiero's Return (1879) (Argentine epic).
Adventures of Don Juan
George gordon byron's Don Juan and herman melville's Claire.
1835: Ka Laivaara (finnish mythology)
20th century
Chesterton's Song of a White Horse
Ezra pound's Poems
african epic
Homer epic
Homer's epic is said to have been written by the blind poet Homer. In fact, it is a lot of folk works.
epic
The collective oral creation of singers. Epic includes oral legends from Mycenae civilization for centuries, and it was not written until the 6th century BC. As historical data, it not only reflects the social situation from1/kloc-0 to the 9th century BC, but also reflects the Mycenae civilization. Homer's epics include Iliad and Odyssey. Homer's epic, composed of these two epics, is a famous masterpiece in the ancient world with concise language, vivid plot, vivid image and tight structure. It is divided into two parts: one part is Hiriart, which tells the story of the ancient Greeks conquering Trojans; The second part is Odyssey, which describes how Odysseus, a Greek hero who participated in the Trojan War, got lost and drifted for 10 years before returning to his hometown, and what he saw and heard along the way.
Homer's praise (angel)
Homer's epic is not a one-off work, but a history preserved in the memory of all Greeks. After the Trojan War, some folk singers and artists from the Greek city-states composed the heroic deeds and victories of the Greeks in the war into lyrics and sang them at public gatherings. These stories were handed down by folk singers, and after centuries of continuous acquisition and revision, they were cut into two parts in Homer's hands and became rigid works. Around the middle of the 6th century BC, when Cytra was in power in Athens (about 605-527 BC), it was finally fixed in words. The Homer epic we see today was compiled by scholars in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Heroic epic is based on certain historical facts. Homer's epic shows us the social situation of the Greeks from the12nd century BC to the 9th century BC, and the transitional form of the Greeks from clan commune to slavery society. It can be seen from Homer's epic that ancient Greece was not disturbed by any external and internal violence in the process of transforming from clan commune to state. The state organization in ancient Greece was directly produced from the clan commune through the production of private property and class differentiation. On the other hand, the descriptions in heroic epics are full of myths and legends. The hero in Homer's epic has either the blood of God or the power endowed by God. They can often decide the direction of historical change at the critical moment of historical development. Therefore, in a sense, the heroic epic preaches the heroic historical view. It's just that the heroic historical view shown in the heroic epic is different from the later western society.
Famous epic
A famous epic, in chronological order:
20th century BC: A Forgotten One (Sumerian Myth)
BC19th century: Ramayana (Indian mythology)
65438 BC+0365438 BC+06 BC: Mahabharata (Bhagavad gita is one of them) (Indian mythology)
The 8th century BC:
Homer's Iliad (Greek mythology)
Homer's Odyssey (Greek mythology)
BC 1 century: Aeneas of Virgil (Roman epic)
9th Century: Beowulf (English Epic)
David of Sassoon (Armenian epic)
10 century: King Ferdowsi (Persian epic)
1 1 century: the song of Roland (French epic)
12nd century: poema de mio cid (Spanish epic)
Igor's Expedition (Russian Epic)
The Tiger Warrior of Shao Rustavili (Georgian epic)
13rd century: Ada (Norse mythology)
Sagar (Nordic epic)
Song of Nibelungen (German folklore)
Biography of King Gesar (Tibetan epic)
14th century: Dante's divine comedy
13-17th century: Water Margin and its related legends (epic in prose style)
15 16: The Anger of Ludwig Ariosto Orlando
1596: The Fairy Tale Queen of edmund spenser
1667: Paradise Lost in john milton
19th century: the return of jose hernandez's Gauchos Martin Fiero (1872) and Martin Fiero (1879) (Argentine epic).
George gordon byron Don Juan
Claire, herman melville.
1835: Ka Laivaara of elias Renlott (finnish mythology)
20th Century: chesterton's Song of a White Horse
Ezra pound's Poems
african epic
The Lord of the Rings's trilogy was written by JohnRonaldReuelTolkien (commonly known as J.R.R Tolkien, 1.892, 1.3 ~ 1.973, a British linguist and writer).
Classification of epics:
1. Traditional epic (heroic epic), also known as primitive epic or folk epic.
2. Literary epic (literati epic), also known as non-primitive epic, such as Virgil's Aeneas.
Characteristics of traditional epics
Traditional epics have several main features:
1. Focus on a hero, usually an important person in military, national or religious affairs, or even a demigod;
2. Huge background setting and vast geographical environment, including many countries, worlds or universes;
3. Brave fighting or brave behavior;
4. God, angel, devil and other gods appear in the story;
5. Long-distance travel, usually exotic;
6. The poet remains objective;
7. Traditional epic is a traditional story, and its theme is mostly known to the public, so that the audience can immediately enter the story without being confused.