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Epic

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Father of epic poetry. Homer (about 950 B.C.), author of the Iliad and Odyssey.

⁂ Celebrated epics are the Iliad, Odyssey, Æneid, Paradise Lost.

The great Puritan epic. Milton’s Paradise Lost.


Speaking of M. Doré’s performances as an illustrator of the great Puritan epic.”—The Times.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Eolian
Eolus
Epact
Epergne
Ephebi
Ephesian
Ephesian Letters
Ephialtes
Ephialtes
Ephori or Ephors
Epic
Epicure
Epicurean
Epicuros. (Latin form, Epicurus.)
Epi-demic
Epigram
Epilepsy
Epimenides
Epiphany
Episemon
Episode

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