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What comes to mind when you hear the word
Epic?
A LONG story that includes actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes.
• Characteristics of the classical epic include these:
1. The gods play an active role in the story
Eris, the goddess of discord, caused the events that led to the Trojan War.
Hera
Athena
Aphrodite
2. LARGE setting: The setting covers several nations, the whole world, or even the universe
3. LARGE cast of CHARACTERS
Trojans
Hector PriamParis
Andromache
Cassandra Hecuba Oenone Astyanax
Greeks
AgamemnonPatroclus Helen
Odysseus
NestorAchilles
Myrmidons Menelaus Calchas
Other
Philoctetes Pentheselia Zeus Aphrodite Eris Thetis
King Memnon
Amazons Poseidon HeraIris
Athena Apollo
Hermes Dionysus Hephaestus
4. The story often “goes off track” and into side stories that are not critical to the main story. Even though they relate to the main story, it would still make sense without them.
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5. Even though the stories are fictional (fake), they provide an answer to a “BIG” question related to their culture.
6. Throughout the story, long periods of time pass.
Ten years went by….
7. The hero of the story follows most of the traits of the heroic code.
Hero of the Iliad: Achilles
Achilles depicted by Brad Pitt in the movie Troy (2004)
Achilles depicted on ancient vase. (540 A.D.)
Modern Day Epics
To name a few…1997
1937
1977