Sima Guang, a historian whose epics are greatly different from the works of other poets known for their literary works .
Hnewo Teyy, Migu, Chamu, Axi Xijjie and Ancestral Song of the Heaven and Earth are the five masterpieces of most popular epics among the Yi people.
It's to admit that this is in fact a late epic and that it derives from a close, studious, student-like imitation of the great epics of Homer and Virgil.
These all laid a solid foundation for the development of Zuo Si's epics.
The three general prefaces state the aims, folklore, epics, long songs and the basic knowledge of folk literature, as well as the main points of the three series.
Scholars with similar destinies in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties established DU Fu s status as a poet of epics and created a great many realistic literary works by imitation.
These are grand themes that, in small detail or in grand epics, are what draw our attention.
Song of Roland is the most well-known of a group of French epics. Song of Roland tells how Roland, one of Charlemagne's warriors, fights in Spain and dies defending a pass in the Pyrenees.
The poem, with close to half a million lines, is twenty times longer than Homer "s Odyssey and one of the longest epics in the world."
Many epics are still widely sung.
More importantly, it has a different starting point from ordinary history of epics: it traces the origin of Chongqing poems from folk songs and seeks its development poem construction.
The attitude to Homer' s epics directly influenced the poetics of Plato and Aristotle.
Only those poems that reflect the scenes of an age and express the wishes of the masses can be called epics.
According to being in quest of origin of the nation, migration, ethnic heroes and the essence of primitive culture, we could expound the epics ethnological value.
