Virgil’s Aeneid Nov. 11, 2015 “Give way, you Greeks! Something greater than the Iliad is coming to birth!”
Practice The author of The Odyssey. Practice Answer Homer.
Epic Poetry
used by writers and poets to say something different from the usual way use of words that go beyond their ordinary meaning requires imagination.
The Odyssey
EPIC POETRY. EPIC LITERATURE Epic: a long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes Ex. Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad Theories on the Origin of Epics.