epics
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In this week’s episode of The Envelope, ‘Frankenstein’s’ Oscar Isaac and ‘Sinners’’ Wunmi Mosaku talk about making personal connections to their hit horror epics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mr. Power begins his survey with Chapman’s Homer but frequently casts his glance backward to the Homeric epics themselves.
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
Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
