Epopee Flashcards
Epopee
Subgenre of epic were the adventures are told in poetic narrative (verse)
Examples of epopees
-the mahabharata
-the illiad and the odyssey
-the epic of gilgamesh
-the ramayana
Egypt
Life after death
-book if the death
Mesopotamia
-oldest epic, gilgamesh
China
-they heroes arenβt warriors, are educaterors
-the thirteen classic
India
-imagination and symbolism
-values justice and goodness
-ramayana and mahabharata
Babylon
-wars and violence
-annals (events after years)
Military stories
Fastos (focus in one region)
Raltions (God)
Hebrew people
The Bible π±π±π±
The iliad
-15 000 verses
-aquiles se enoja con agamenon y se va pero vuando hector mata a patroclus, vuelve y lo mata
The odyssey
-Odysseus travels to go to ithaca
-his son and his wife telemachus and penelope wait
-represent enconter with his own self
The aeneid
Virgil wrote to emulate rome, aenas was with dido but it goes to hell and fund rome