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epics

NOUN
long story
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The production was announced in March this year as a "rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Translations of the Greek epics would influence generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Even when the record veers from its characters, strong thematic threads—many of which are borrowed from western epics of yore—remain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

It’s believed to have first appeared in text in the Mahabharata, one of two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Asra knew the Orgota staples, the Short-Tales of Meshe, the tale of Parsid, parts of the great epics and the novel-like Sea-Traders saga.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin



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