EPOS

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

Synonyms:

epic; epic poem; epos; heroic poem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("epos" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epos"):

chanson de geste (Old French epic poems)

rhapsody ((in ancient Greece) an epic poem adapted for recitation)

heroic; heroic meter; heroic verse (a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter)

Instance hyponyms:

Aeneid (an epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire)

Divina Commedia; Divine Comedy (a narrative epic poem written by Dante)

Iliad (a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy)

Odyssey (a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy)

Nibelungenlied (an epic poem written in Middle High German and based on the legends of Siegfried and Teutonic kings)

Derivation:

epic (constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme