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From the very outset in the West - from enough time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE - the epic has been the most respectable of literary genres. It is rivaled only by tragedy, which arose a bit more than two centuries later, as the most respected, the most influential, and, from a slightly different vantage point, the most prestigious mode of addressing the human condition in literary terms. The major epics are the big boys, the works that, from the very outset, everyone had heard of and everyone knew, at least by reputation. They are the works that had the most profound & most enduring cultural influence. Plus they are extremely much around still, even more than others, but all - or all the most successful ones - are more or less firmly enshrined in cultural memory. They are still read. They are still taught. They still gain imitators and admirers. The stories they tell still condition our imagination and aspirations.

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Publisher	Recorded Books
Language	English
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DATE	2008-10
Author	Timothy Shutt

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