epos

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

From Latin epos, from Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos, “word, song, epic”).

She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
But what is this popular folk-song in contrast to the wholly Apollonian epos? — The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Footnote 1062: The claim of Usener may be noted (“Der Stoff des griechischen Epos,” _Sitzungsber. d. Kais. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

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