#epic-poetry

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fromHarvard Gazette
4 days ago

Was 'Aeneid' critiquing or glorifying empire? - Harvard Gazette

Virgil's Aeneid narrates Aeneas's journey to found Rome, exploring duty, fate, imperial power, migration ethics, and the moral costs of conquest.
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Medieval Books: Huon d'Auvergne - Medievalists.net

Huon d'Auvergne is a 14th-century epic poem featuring a journey to hell with 12,000 lines of rich narrative.
fromOpen Culture
3 months ago

Paradise Lost Explained: How John Milton Wrote His Epic Religious Poem from Satan's Perspective

"Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is."
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