renamed EPICS and was presented at the International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS) in 1991. EPICS was...

game company Epic Systems, a healthcare software company in Verona, Wisconsin Epics (company), a Japanese video game developer Red Epic, a motion picture...

traditional European definition of the heroic epic are sometimes known as folk epics. Indian folk epics have been investigated by Lauri Honko (1998),...

big-budget films. Like epics in the classical literary sense, an epic film is often focused on a heroic character. An epic's ambitious nature helps to...

epics were later than the Cyclic epics and drew on them extensively.[citation needed] Other Neoanalysts make the milder claim that the Homeric epics draw...

Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic poems ever written. In modern Hindi...

notes "The Exploited Horror Epics Album Lyrics". www.sing365.com. "The Exploited – Horror Epics". Discogs. "Horror Epics – The Exploited – Credits". AllMusic...

Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos targeted at children ages 12 and under...

Epic: The Musical (stylized as EPIC) is a nine-part series of album musicals (referred to as "sagas") written and produced in their entirety by Puerto...

epics Inc. (株式会社epics, Kabushiki gaisha epics) is a Japanese video game software developer located in Tokyo, Japan. Originally established as Gen Creative...

later heroes such as Heracles (Hercules) and the epic itself serving as an influence for Homeric epics. It has been translated into many languages and...

Epic film: encompasses historical epics, religious epics, and western epics. However, such commonly been broken further into subgenres, Female epic:...

Epicor Software Corporation is a business software company based in Austin, Texas founded in 1972. Its products are aimed at the manufacturing, distribution...

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Music Group, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony...

Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. The epics depict man's struggle, the Odyssey especially so, as Odysseus perseveres...

Baahubali: The Epic is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language epic action film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the script with V. Vijayendra Prasad. Produced...

books, then onto Deadpool's Modern Era Epics. The legacy numbering of the Deadpool books means these Modern Era Epics take place directly after the Deadpool...

Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as...

The Five Great Epics (Tamil: ஐம்பெருங்காப்பியங்கள், romanized: Aimperumkāppiyaṅkaḷ) are five Tamil epics according to later Tamil literary tradition....

written versions of the epics. Epics such as the Geser were passed to the Mongols through writing (the first edition of the epic in Mongolian being published...

World folk-epics are those epics which are not just literary masterpieces but also an integral part of the worldview of a people. They were originally...

Epics In Minutes is a compilation of singles by the band Fucked Up released March 16, 2004 on Deranged Records. The band states in the liner notes that...

The Epic may refer to: The Epic (album), by Kamasi Washington The Epic (building), skyscraper in New York City The Epic (EP), by Citizen Kane Ramayana:...

com/amp/2025/08/16/how-epics-82-year-old-ceo-judy-faulkner-built-her-software-factory.html Boulton, Guy (August 24, 2008). "Epic Systems' $300 million...

The Epic is the third studio album by American jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington and his first to be released on a record label. It was released on May...

The Five Minor Epics (Tamil: Ainchirukāppiyaṅkaḷ) are five Tamil epics according to later Tamil literary tradition. They are Neelakesi, Culamani, Naga...

OneRepublic. Dirty Epics performed at Guinness Arthur's Day 2010 in Whelans with Brandon Flowers and in The George Pub with the Hoosiers. Dirty Epics also appeared...

EPIC (ESA Provided Institutional Crew) is a planned crewed spaceflight mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to the International Space Station (ISS)...

between 750 and 500 BC. The epics took place before the Trojan War and centered around the Theban royal family. The epics of the Theban Cycle were the...

time when people's names were not the same as they were when the Homeric epics were written down. Some story elements from the tablets appear in the Iliad...

Epic theatre (German: episches Theater) is a theatrical movement that arose in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number...

2009, the air time of TNA Epics on Bravo was moved from Fridays at 10 pm GMT to Saturdays at 11 pm, meaning that TNA Epics would now be shown following...

National poet Civil religion Epic film Epic poetry Founding myth Great American Novel List of national poets List of world folk-epics National myth Philippe-Alexandre...

were first described in the 12th century by French poet Jean Bodel, whose epic Chanson des Saisnes [fr] ("Song of the Saxons") contains the lines: Ne sont...

Some scholars connect the epics' segmentation to the tradition of performance, for example as a creation of rhapsodes. Both epics presuppose some knowledge...

include: EPIC 201563164, EPIC 204278916, EPIC 204376071 and EPIC 249706694. Examples of related planets include: EPIC 203771098 b, EPIC 203771098 c, EPIC 206011691...

Epic is a production and publishing company founded in 2013 by journalists Joshuah Bearman and Joshua Davis as a new venue for telling extraordinary true...

"Epics". These Epics prey upon or enslave the rest of humanity, causing the collapse of traditional governments. One young man orphaned by a High Epic...

Epic Movie is a 2007 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and starring Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jayma Mays,...

traditional epics. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. p. 321. Jackson-Laufer, Guida Myrl, ed. (1994). "KĀṬAMARĀJU KATHA". Encyclopedia of traditional epics. Santa...

These epics are transmitted through oral tradition using a select group of singers and chanters. A study revealed that the Philippine folk epics, like...

scholarship is the study of any Homeric topic, especially the two large surviving epics, the Iliad and Odyssey. It is currently part of the academic discipline...

Norwegian Epic is a cruise ship of the Norwegian Cruise Line built under NCL's F3 Project by the STX Europe Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire...

influenced by the Attic dialect. It was later named Epic Greek because it was used as the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets...

common in historical epics during the 1940s and 1950s. Reviewers have also linked the convention to the prominence of Biblical epics in mid-20th century...

professional performer of epic poetry in the fifth and fourth centuries BC (and perhaps earlier). Rhapsodes notably performed the epics of Homer (Iliad and...

High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or...

known as The EpicCentral) is an American property in Grand Prairie, Texas. The establishment consists of "The Summit", "The Epic", "Epic Waters" and "PlayGrand...

The Epic E1000 is an American single-engine, six-seat, turboprop light aircraft developed by Epic Aircraft of Bend, Oregon. A development of the kit-built...

version of the Ramayana List of world folk-epics Indian epic poetry According to that article, world folk epics are those that are not just literary masterpieces...

characters inspired from ancient Indian epics and are noted for their integration of the emotions in those ancient epics with visual grandeur. All the films...

authentic epic in the Western tradition – they are by default "modern epics". However, argue these critics, this is by no means a contradiction. The epic remains...

Michael, Epics, Khilas and Puranas: Continuities and Ruptures, Proceedings of the Third Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas...

An epic catalogue is a long, detailed list of objects, places or people that is a characteristic of epic poetry. In the Iliad: Catalogue of Ships, the...

Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co. 2004. ISBN 978-0-87220-697-7. "Epic of Sun-Jata | World Epics". edblogs.columbia.edu. Retrieved 16 February 2022. Austen,...

'user-story', the second level 'epics' (grouping of user stories) and the third level 'initiatives' (grouping of epics). However, initiatives are not always...

accepted the same metre, vocabulary, rhetoric of the epics. However, the new genre turned the old epic upside down about the meaning, setting the stories...

Valmiki, is a Hindu smriti epic poem (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India. It is one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the...

is intended to start a trilogy and a shared universe called the "Batman Epic Crime Saga". A sequel, The Batman: Part II, is scheduled for release on February...

de Utnoa “the first truly remarkable epic-science fiction poem in the world, and one of the very few modern epics” and Gerrit Berveling called it “impressively...

ancient epics (Itihasas) of Hindu literature. It is attributed to the sage Valmiki. This is a list of important figures that appear in the epic. Agastya:...

The Epic of the Wheat was a planned trilogy by American author Frank Norris. Two of the three works were published, but the third was not written at the...

mythological flying palaces or chariots described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics. The "Pushpaka Vimana" of Ravana (who took it from Kubera; Rama returned...

Openings In and Through Epic Translation Histories". In Armstrong & Lianeri (2025). Bassnett, Susan. "Defying the Odds: How Classical Epics Continue to Survive...

The Slav Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The...

expected, not only to understand the epics, but be able to rewrite the stories in their own words. Rewriting the Homeric epics was commonplace and accepted in...

 'that which is remembered') are the Hindu epics and the Puranas (lit. 'that which is ancient'). The epics consist of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana...

and there are currently five epics shown in that step. No more work items can move into deployment until one or more epics complete that step (moving to...

Psalms); and retellings of oral epics (such as the Egyptian Story of Sinuhe, Indian epic poetry, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey). Ancient...

The World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's, also known as Epic McD, and formerly known as Mickey D's, is a McDonald's restaurant which opened in 1976...

twentieth century, helped to explain many existing questions about Homer's epics and provided archaeological evidence for many of the mythological details...

rejection, happiness and pain, good and evil like all classic epics of the world. Yet unlike other epics that deal with kings and armies caught up with universal...

Epic TV is an Indian television channel that airs action, drama, comedy and narrative non-fiction and fictional programming with a focus on Indian history...

Turkmenistan, the epic is called Görogly which translates as "the son of a grave" and holds a special place among the Turkmen epics. The Turkmen people...

them. Dante did not have access to the original Greek texts of the Homeric epics, so his knowledge of their subject-matter was based only on information...

Buslayev, who became part of the Novgorod Cycle of folk epics. The most prominent heroes in these epics are Svyatogor and Volkh Vseslavyevich [ru]; they are...

Bicolano full-length folk epic of the Bicol region of the Philippines, based on the Indian Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. The epic is said to have been...

mythology. Along with the sea monster Scylla, she appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas. The descriptions of Greek...

Epic (stylized in all-lowercase) is a 2013 American animated fantasy action adventure film directed by Chris Wedge, loosely based on William Joyce's 1996...

Complete Epic may refer to: The Godfather 1901-1959: The Complete Epic Marvel Complete Epics, a series of large trade paperback collections of Marvel...

(1982). Mādhava Ghimirekā viśishṭa khaṇḍakāvya [Madhava Ghimire's greatests epics] (in Nepali). Śyāma Pustaka Bhaṇḍāra. Nepal, Music. "Music Nepal". Music...

Ramayana: The Epic is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language computer-animated mythological action film from Maya Digital Media. Directed by Chetan Desai and produced...

winnowing fans'), is a rakshasi (demoness) in Hindu epic. Her legends are mainly narrated in the epic Ramayana and its other versions. She was the sister...

year. Production ceased in 2003. The batteries were removed from the fifty EPICs produced that year; the vehicles were crushed and scrapped before any were...

figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War, being second only to Achilles among...

The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is a mosque located in Plano, Texas. The current building of the masjid opened in July 2015. The current Imam is Nadim...

century. His most important writing, Jaimini Bharata is a version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The writing focuses on the events following the battle of Indraprastha...

with a nominal adherence to Brahmanical orthodoxy. [citation needed] The epics depict gods with human-like qualities, and also emphasize avatars. The belief...

to Epic cycles of incarnations at Wikimedia Commons "Manipuri Literature in History 4". e-pao.net. Retrieved 26 October 2022. "Indian Folk Epics". www...

Uplifting trance (often synonymous with epic trance, energetic trance, anthem trance, emotional trance, or euphoric trance) is a broad subgenre of trance...

the largest collection of South Slavic oral epics, and its most significant part consists of Bosniak epics. Helping Milman Parry, his student Albert B...

Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India U. Padmanabha Upadhyaya (1985). Folk epics of Tulunad. Regional Resources Centre for Folk Performing Arts. p. 26. "Udupi:...

epic poem consisting of 20 sargas (cantos) of about 1800 highly ornate stanzas and is considered one of the six Sanskrit mahakavyas, or "great epics"...

represented in the table of epics in the received canon on the very fragmentary "Borgia table" as "Danaides". The subject of the epic is the Danaïdes, the fifty...

the Homeric epics and the Epic Cycle originated from oral tradition. Even after the composition of the Iliad, Odyssey, and the Cyclic Epics, the myths...

The Epic of Manas is a lengthy and traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people of Central Asia. Versions of the poem which date to the 19th century contain...

romanized: Pañcakanyā, lit. 'Five maidens') is a group of five iconic women of the Hindu epics, extolled in a hymn and whose names are believed to dispel sin when recited...

Epic of the Forgotten (Bulgarian: Епопея на забравените; Epopeya na zabravenite) is a cycle of 12 odes composed by Bulgarian writer Ivan Vazov between...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Epic of Gilgamesh may also refer to: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Martinů), 1955 oratorio by...

Epigoni (Ancient Greek: Ἐπίγονοι, Epigonoi, "Progeny") was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some...

Epic Mickey is a 2010 platform game developed by Junction Point Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios for the Wii. It was released in November...

Designer Nathan Crowley On "Rawness, Simplicity & Brutalism" Of World War II Epic". Deadline Hollywood.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service...

Hüseyin; Erçetin, Şefika Şule (2024). "Studying the Complexity Through Turkish Epics". In Erçetin, Şefika Şule; Açıkalın, Şuay Nilhan; Tomé, Luís (eds.). Chaos...

reminding Hades of his love for Persephone ("Epic III"). Hades and Persephone reconcile with a dance ("Epic III ('They Danced...')"), after which Orpheus...

This list is by no means exhaustive. In addition to the epics listed here, there are numerous epics written 'in part' (called khanda or mahatmaya) starting...

v t e Epic of Bamana Segu (or Epic of Bambara Segu) is one of the longest epics recorded in Africa. The epic was composed by Bambara people in the 19th...

The Easter Epic is the nickname given to a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey game during the 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs between the New York Islanders...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Ramayana, Ramayan, or Ramayanam may also refer to: Kakawin...

responsible for it and that she plans to get rid of him. The album The Score – An Epic Journey by Epica is the soundtrack to the film. Most of the songs of the...

 'Woman with blue hair') is a Tamil Jain epic poetry. Tamil literary tradition places it among the five minor epic poems, along with Naga kumara kaviyam...

Roy, Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful Life conveys practical and philosophical lessons drawn from ancient Hindu epics. It was released on 28 December...

appears as a character in multiple ancient Greek works, including the Homeric epics and plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. She is infamous for murdering...

coffins. All proceeds from the event went toward Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely Epic Grant for Baby Geniuses, a financial grant for up-and-coming artists, set...

Epic Bhojpuri (formerly Filamchi and Filamchi Bhojpuri) is an dedicated Bhojpuri language 24x7 movie channel owned by The Epic Company. It was launched...

Epic Bharat is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment television channel owned by The Epic Company. The network's programming includes family dramas...

EPIC City is a master-planned Islamic community-centered residential development project in Texas, situated approximately 40 minutes from Dallas near the...

the Iliad", hand 1 (2007), 596. Kearns, Emily. "The Gods in the Homeric epics". In R. Fowler (2006), pp. 59–73. Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Wilson...

"Dirty Epic" is a 1994 single by British electronic band Underworld. It is a remix of the track "Dirty" released by Underworld in 1992, under the name...

com/amp/2025/08/16/how-epics-82-year-old-ceo-judy-faulkner-built-her-software-factory.html Moukheiber, Zina (18 April 2012). "Epic Systems' Tough Billionaire"...

Independent Film Festival in February 2003. The U.S. home media label Cult Epics released the film on DVD the same year, and a Blu-ray edition followed in...

"The Epic Split feat. Van Damme (Live Test)" is a 75-second-long commercial released in November 2013 by Swedish company Volvo Trucks, as the sixth commercial...

Algeria, Burkina Faso and Mauritania also use this term for such agencies. EPICs were first recognized as a specific form of public agencies by the Court...

Epic Times was a news website network started by Jerry Doyle. EpicTimes featured contributors such as former deputy undersecretary of defense in the George...

period. Armor has been described in religious texts; including the Itihasa epics Ramayana and Mahabharat, as well as in the Puranas. Major findings from...

portrayed Marvel Comics character the Hulk in an episode of YouTube web series Epic Rap Battles of History. Michael O'Hearn was born in Kirkland, Washington...

Epic Music (formerly ShowBox) is an Indian Hindi music channel that is owned by The Epic Company. This is free-to-air channel. This channel shows Bollywood...

in Indian epics, Vedas, and Puranas. In 2012, Bhaduri undertook the large-scale project of creating an encyclopedia of the major Indian epics of the Mahabharata...

on individual practical morality. In the Sanskrit epics, this concern is omnipresent. In Hindu Epics, the good, morally upright, law-abiding king is referred...

मृतसञ्जीवनी, romanized: Mṛtasañjīvanī) is a mythical herb featured in the Hindu epic Ramayana. The herb is mentioned in the Ramayana when Ravana's son, Indrajit...

Akanāṉūṟu (dated 200 BCE–300 CE), Puṟanāṉūṟu (dated 200 BCE–300 CE), the twin epics of Silappatikaram (dated 6th century CE) and Manimekalai, and the Alvar...

context of Internet memes. The interjection fail and the superlative form epic fail expressed derision and ridicule for mistakes deemed "eminently mockable"...

by the dutar; zhyrau sing heroic epics, accompanied by the kobyz. Reichl, Karl (2007). Edige: A Karakalpak Heroic Epic, as performed by Jumabay Bazarov...

romanized: Rāvaṇa, lit. 'roaring') is the principal antagonist of the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana and its several other versions. He is traditionally depicted as...

The Epic-Puranic chronology is a timeline of Hindu mythology based on the Itihasa (the Sanskrit Epics, that is, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and...

folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong. It is also noted for being a folk epic from...

known by his online alias EpicLLOYD, is an American internet personality and rapper best known for the YouTube video series Epic Rap Battles of History,...

record. Columbia's success continued through the 1950s with the launch of Epic Records in 1953 and Date Records in 1958.[new archival link needed] By 1962...

from memory. A narrative poem usually tells a story using a poetic theme. Epics are very vital to narrative poems, although it is thought those narrative...

The Mwindo epic is an oral tale from the Congo told by the Nyanga people. The origins and creation of the Mwindo epic are mostly unknown since the story...

dactylic hexameter is used throughout epic poetry, and because the elegiac form was always considered "lower style" than epic, elegists, or poets who wrote elegies...

Shadowline is an American comic book sub-imprint of the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics that was originally published from 1988 to 1990. It was created and...

Modern example of Serbian epics as recorded in 1992 by film director Paweł Pawlikowski in a documentary for the BBC Serbian epics; an anonymous gusle singer...

ten epics. These epics are rendered in an extinct language related to Kinaray-a. Caballero, who was also called Nong Pedring, learned about epics from...

although original date of composition is unknown. As with many traditional epics, it has gone through a process of interpolations and redactions, making...

lit. Pike) is a major character in the Mahabharata, one of two Sanskrit epics of Ancient India. He was a powerful king from the Bahlika clan, ruling over...

Christianity. Immortality is a constant goal of the characters in Mesopotamian epics. No matter the version of the story, the man who survives the flood, whether...

Little Iliad are lost epics of ancient Greek literature that follows the events of Iliad. In the few surviving fragments of the epic, the poem describes...

Scott to give more depth to her character during filming. When working on epics, Scott states, "there's always the danger that the characters can get swamped"...

Kartikeya is worshipped as Subramanya, lord of all serpents in the temple. Epics say that the divine serpent Vasuki and other serpents found refuge under...

Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who is known for his epic film, Mughal-e-Azam (1960). Asif was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India...

Epic Burger is an American fast-casual retailer of high-end hamburgers and other related menu items based in Illinois. The chain was founded by David Friedman...

sources List of mythological objects List of culture heroes List of world folk-epics Lists of deities Lists of legendary creatures National myth Mythopoeia...

"Epic Pooh" is a 1978 essay by the British science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, which aims to review the field of epic fantasy, with a particular...

Shahnameh, is devoted to Faramarz and his wars. He is also mentioned in other epics such as the Borzu Nama. Faramarz was the son of Rostam and grandson of Zal...

The Epic LT is an American kit-built single-engined turboprop aircraft intended for use by private pilots. The Epic Dynasty was the proposed certified...

The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness is a non-fiction book written by Delia Owens and Mark Owens, first published in 1992...

and his descendants. Atri is also mentioned in the Puranas and the Hindu epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Atri is one of the seven great rishis...

Epic Aircraft is a general aviation aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Bend, Oregon. The company produces the Epic E1000 AX single engine turboprop...

Bret Hadley "Epic" Mazur (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer, rapper, and record producer. He is best known as a founder and former frontman of...

the performance of epic poetry was called rhapsodia, and its performer rhapsodos, but the word does not occur in the early epics or in contemporary lyric...

000-verse epic that takes about three days to chant in its original form, making it one of the longest epics known, alongside that of Tibet's Epic of King...

wrote a seminal survey of Philippine folk epics, and was responsible for discovering and publishing folk epics from the Manuvu, Matigsalug, and Ilianon...

Company. p. 528. ISBN 978-81-7022-375-7. Laura Gibbs, PhD. Modern Languages MLLL-4993. Indian Epics. Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology v t e...

Nannūl. Mayilainathar does not mention the names of the five epics. The names of the epics are first mentioned in the late 18th century - early 19th century...

father of Sugriva and Karna, who play important roles in the two Hindu epics—the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, respectively. Surya was a primary deity...

Sri Lanka and the mystical kingdom of Lanka were mentioned in the great epics of Mahavamsa, Vargapurnika, Mahabaratha, Manimekalai, Ramayana and Sangams...

The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People is book about European migrations into the United States by Oscar Handlin...

the epics over time; in particular, "the emphasis on love and courtly manners distinguishes it from the chanson de geste and other kinds of epic, in which...

his work the nature of the other epics. It is known that Callimachus was an influential critic of contemporary epics but that need not have included Argonautica...

English", he became widely known for his retellings of Indian mythological epics, starting with the internationally acclaimed and best-selling eight-volume...

Ivanova (2015). An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-873-32641-4. "bylinas | World Epics". edblogs.columbia.edu. Retrieved 26 April...

The Indian Voter Card, officially the Elector's Photo Identity Card (EPIC), is an identity document issued by the Election Commission of India to all Indian...

the later epic phase. Thus, according to John L Brockington, "the term seems to belong not so much to the earliest, heroic phase of the epics' development...

distinctive lead and character roles across a wide spectrum of genres – from epics to science fiction and action thrillers. In addition to acting, Bana is...

heritage. The region was called Madhyadesh and Panchala in the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. During the colonial era in India, the region was...

In the Epic Cycle, Antinous (also Antinoüs; Latin: Antinous) or Antinoös (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος, romanized: Antínoös) was the Ithacan son of Eupeithes...

Epic Pinball is a 1993 pinball video game developed by James Schmalz and published by Epic MegaGames. The initial release pre-dated Schmalz' Digital Extremes...

The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1300–1100 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (𐎁𐎓𐎍 lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility...

known for playing the character of warrior prince Arjuna in B. R. Chopra's epic television series Mahabharat. He has also acted in negative roles in several...

Kings may refer to: Books of Kings in the Bible Shahnameh, an 11th-century epic Persian poem Pararaton, the Javanese Book of Kings, a 16th-century Javanese...

appears in the epic Ramayana and other lore, in which he disguises himself as a crow. In the Sundara Kanda (the fifth Book of the epic Ramayana), when...

(Television production). Geography of the Odyssey Historicity of the Homeric epics Trojan War Where Troy Once Stood This putative hydronym is derived from...

(that is thrown)/missile/bolt/arrow') is a supernatural weapon in Hindu epics. It is presided over by a specific deity and imbued with spiritual powers...

predecessor it contains many literary references: it blends together Homer's epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and has frequent smaller...

traditionally credited as the author of the epic poem Cilappatikaram (the Song of the Anklet), one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature. In the patikam...

The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature) according to the later Tamil literary tradition. The surviving stanza fragments of the epic are in kalitturai...

in the World's Epics, Mouton de Gruyter, ISBN 978-0-89925-625-2 Honko, Lauri, ed. (2002), The Kalevala and the World's Traditional Epics, Finnish Literature...

one of the Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature, and one of three that have survived into the modern age. Along with its twin-epic Cilappatikaram, the Manimekalai...

Hinduism, who is mentioned in the epic Ramayana. He helps Rama find his wife Sita and fight her abductor, Ravana, in the epic Ramayana. He is the son of Vali...

My Epic is an American Christian rock band from Charlotte, North Carolina started in 2005. They released an independent EP in 2006 entitled This Is Rescue...

(Ettuthokai) and the Ten Idylls (Pattupattu), the Five Great Epics and the Five Minor Epics. Tolkaappiyam, a commentary on grammar, phonetics, rhetoric...

Epic Narratives is the eighth studio album by Japanese rock band Band-Maid. It was released on September 25, 2024, and was their first full-length studio...

[ˈlɐŋkaː]) is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary Rakshasa king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata...

Epic Recordings is a compilation album drawing from Lynne's three Epic albums, Sunrise, Tough All Over, and Soft Talk. The album was released on September...

of the five great Tamil epics. Authored by a Madurai-based Jain ascetic Tiruttakkatēvar in the early 10th century, the epic is a story of a prince who...

Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). In its decennial...

nuances of Victorian poetry, oral traditions in Kannada storytelling and epics in Sanskrit and Kannada. V.K Gokak wrote many collections of poetry under...

major Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, however, were composed in a range of oral storytelling registers called Epic Sanskrit which was...

India. pp. xiv. ISBN 9789387326262. Brockington, J. L. (1998). The Sanskrit Epics. Brill. ISBN 90-04-10260-4. SarDesai, D. R. (4 May 2018), "India in Prehistoric...

The Epic Tower is a residential skyscraper in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil. Built between 2014 and 2020, the tower stands at 191.1 m (627 ft) with 56 floors...

traditional narrator of the Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India. He was one of Vyasa's four main disciples. His nephew and disciple...

Clader, Linda Lee (1976). Helen: The Evolution from Divine to Heroic in Greek Epic Tradition. Brill. p. 34. ISBN 978-90-04-04721-1. Cook, John Granger (2018)...

Kubera acquired the status of a deva (god) only in the Puranas and the Hindu epics. The scriptures describe that Kubera once ruled Lanka, but was overthrown...

teenaged roles, such as Piper in the 2011 Nickelodeon series Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and Belinda in the 2014 Disney XD series Kirby Buckets. Espensen...

dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that initiates the plot of Homer's epic. She was married to Mynes, a son of the King of Lyrnessus, until the Achaeans...

epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today identified as having some relation to the Mycenaean era. These two epics...

Mahabharat is a 2013 Indian epic mythological television series based on the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata. It aired from 16 September 2013 to 16 August 2014...

1997. In the United States, the book was released as Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem. The book was released...

earliest clear evidence of Kartikeya's importance emerges in the Hindu epics, such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, where his story is recited. Mentions...

Publishing Company, Inc., 2000. Print. Media related to Euryclea at Wikimedia Commons The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark, Bryn Mawr Classical Review...

Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic space opera film directed by Denis Villeneuve, from a screenplay he wrote with Jon Spaihts. It is a sequel to Dune...

Unepic (stylized as UnEpic) is a role-playing platformer video game developed by Francisco Téllez de Meneses and various collaborators and published by...

2020. "Adipurush movie review: Anti Hindu Critics call Prabhas-starrer 'an epic disappointment'". 16 June 2023. phelian (17 June 2023). "From Mob Attacks...

The Epic Victory was the second experimental jet designed by Epic Aircraft, a company that was based in Bend, Oregon. Epic Aircraft declared bankruptcy...

sign, (also common for is, iṣ, and iz), is a common, multi-use sign, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Amarna letters, and other cuneiform texts. It also has...

junior wives of Ravana, the antagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana. She appears rarely in the epic and is famous as the mother of Atikaya. In some other...

Little else is mentioned about Penelope's familial background in the Homeric epics. However, Pseudo-Apollodorus says she is the daughter of the Naiad nymph...

albums Troops of Tomorrow in 1982, Let's Start a War in 1983 and Horror Epics in 1985. The period between these albums was marked by severe discord over...

Additionally, DeMille's epics, such as The Crusades, influenced Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky. Moreover, DeMille's epics inspired directors such...

19th century. His Mukhtarnameh poem is one of the longest and earliest epics in Albanian literature. Shahin (Shahinin) Kaso Frashëri was born in Frashër...

$5-trillion economy". 2019. "Sanskrit literature isn't just about Hindu epics, it also dips into the Bible and Quran, says well-known translator A N D...

and arts. Aruna is found in different, inconsistent Indian legends. In the epic Mahabharata, he was born prematurely and partially developed from an egg...

and was later adapted into a variety of art forms, including Renaissance epics and operas. It was one of the great European literary cycles that figured...

Literature from 12th century in Kannada language is a very popular and acclaimed epic on the life of Harishchandra. Harishchandra has been the subject of many...

Epic Conditions is a non-fiction television series shown on The Weather Channel that premiered on Sunday, March 4, 2007. The show's main emphasis to show...

Virgil, a Latin epic poem from the time of Augustus. The story featured heavily in the Little Iliad and the Sack of Troy, both part of the Epic Cycle, but...

American Epic is a film series by Bernard MacMahon. American Epic may also refer to: American Epic (film series), a 2017 documentary series by Bernard...

authorship of several antiquarian epics composed in the Corinthian-Sicyonian cultural sphere, notably Corinthiaca, an epic narrating the legends and early...

Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). It has a secondary sub-use in the Epic of Gilgamesh for šam...

with agriculture (cf. the Flood epic Athrahasis). Stephanie Dalley, in Myths from Mesopotamia, writes that the Epic of Anzu itself "is principally known...

Explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC) is a term coined in 1997 by the HP–Intel alliance to describe a computing paradigm that researchers had...

family of students were the authors of Mandala 6 in the Rigveda. In the epic Mahabharata, Bharadvaja was the father of Droṇācārya, the guru and instructor...

The Epic Center is a 385-foot (117 m), 22-story skyscraper at 301 N. Main St. in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is the tallest building in the state...

Rāmāyaṇa are the oldest preserved and well-known epics of India. Versions have been adopted as the epics of Southeast Asian countries like Philippines,...

Jatayu (Sanskrit: जटायु, IAST: Jaṭāyu) is a demigod in the Hindu epic Rāmayana, who has the form of a vulture. He was the younger son of Aruṇa and his...

understanding of Homeric epics. The long oral tradition that has sustained Albanian epic poetry reinforces the idea that pre-Homeric epic poetry was oral. The...

biblical epic". Since epics were typically written about heroic kings and queens (and with pagan gods), Milton originally envisioned his epic to be based...

Quatre épices is a spice mix used in French cuisine, and some Middle Eastern kitchens. Its name is French for "four spices"; it is considered the French...

Epic Kids (formerly Gubbare TV) is an Indian multilanguage (Hindi Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil ) kids entertainment channel that was owned by...

India, is an archive of numerous epic poetry as well as epic prose.[citation needed] Here is a list of the epics in Meitei literature: "Khamba Thoibi...

ବୈତରଣୀ) is one of six major rivers of Odisha, India. Venerated in popular epics and legends, the Baitarani River is a source of water for agricultural irrigation...

Mehrāb Kāboli (Persian: مهراب کابلی) or Mehrāb, is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the king of Kabol and is most famous for being the father...

[Chapter 2]". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 28 October 2022. Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India Quote: VISRAVAS. [Source: Dowson's Classical Dictionary...

swift and bloody death to the suitors. The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey...

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is an American 2D-animated streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television that is based on...

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands is a British epic fantasy drama television series broadcast by ITV. It was created by James Dormer, Tim Haines and Katie...

their epic theatre projects (non-Aristotelian drama and Theatre of the Oppressed, respectively) against models of tragedy. Taxidou, however, reads epic theatre...

the forms of Ishvara and Brahman. Later texts such as the Upanishads and epics, namely the Gita of Mahabharata, are essential parts of these later developments...

the style of poetry from the eighteenth century which was based around epics, odes, satires, elegies, epistles and songs. In early-19th-century England...

published by Delacorte in August 1968. The stories range from wartime epics to futuristic thrillers, given with satire and Vonnegut's unique edge. The...

Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group) was an imprint of American publishing company Marvel Comics, active from 1982 to 1996. A spin-off of...

IAST: Lava) is the younger of the twin sons of Rama and Sita in the Hindu epic Ramayana. His elder twin brother is Kusha. According to tradition, the Ramayana...

that it be seen slowly, mulled over carefully and, preferably, as in all epics, seen again. Benegal snips away at a richly labyrinthia of tapestry of his...

songwriter Michael Jackson. It was released on November 29, 1982, through Epic Records. It was produced by Quincy Jones, who had previously worked with...

Epic Obsession is the third album of the hard rock and metal band Burning Rain featuring guitar player Doug Aldrich (Revolution Saints, The Dead Daisies)...

Epic Soundtrax was an American record label. A division of Sony Music's Epic Records, it was established in 1992 as an imprint for soundtrack albums. It...

the better-attested epics in the Epic Cycle: nearly thirty lines of the original text survive. What is known today about the epic is almost entirely dependent...

Epic Soundtracks was the stage name of the British musician Kevin Paul Godfrey (23 March 1959 – 6 November 1997). Born in Croydon, Surrey, he was brought...

Precursor Games, after the loss of a court case against Epic Games over the game engine Unreal Engine 3. Epic Games won the case and a counter-suit for $4.45...

Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary With Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 0-8426-0822-2. Māṇi...

co-created, produces, and hosts the web show Epic Meal Time and its FYI television spin-off series, Epic Meal Empire. He is one of the two remaining original...

was incorporated into a 1965 documentary on the making of the film, The Epic That Never Was. I, Claudius was a production of Alexander Korda's London...

also called the epics of the "Matter of France": Chanson de geste: Matter of France was part history and part legendary heroic epic tales of Charlemagne...

Saudagar with Amitabh Bachchan and also as Queen Kaikeyi in Ramanand Sagar's epic series Ramayan (1987–88). She has appeared in two Telugu films with N. T...

no mention in the Valmiki Ramayana, and appears in later versions of the epic. In versions of the Ramayana, following the death of her husband, Sulochana...

many potential epics (i.e., high-level stories) for the next release of their product, they could use the MoSCoW method to select which epics are Must have...

of the epic Ramayana in their powers to sway the war. Both Karna and Kumbhakarna did not take part in the great wars of their respective epics at the...

power metal bands based their concept albums on fantasy books and national epics; Blind Guardian based Nightfall in Middle-Earth on Tolkien's The Silmarillion...

EPIC 2014 is a Flash movie released in November 2004 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson with original music by Aaron McLeran. It was based on a presentation...

series The L Word and Elizabeth Russell in the Oscar-nominated Bollywood epic Lagaan. Rachel Irene Shelley was born on 25 August 1969 in Wiltshire, England...

with No Name") is a first-person survival horror video game developed by Epics and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS. The game follows a university...

of Mycenae and Tiryns. These sites are strongly connected to the Homeric epics. The earliest examples of the Greek language are also visible at Mycenae...

children's church program (CityLife Kids), a youth ministry every Friday, (EPIC Youth), and a Young Adults ministry. CityLife Church also runs CityLife Community...

IAST: Kuśa) is the elder of the twin sons of Rama and Sita in the Hindu epic Ramayana. His younger twin brother is Lava. According to tradition, the Ramayana...

published an English translation of the Maranao version of the Ramayana epic. He is also a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila. For...

other avatars. The epics present the earliest known versions of the popular Samudra Manthana narrative. In the Adi Parva Book of the epic Mahabharata, the...

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom is a 2023 non-fiction book by Ilyon Woo that examines the history of the escape of Ellen...

Hinduism. He is the guardian deity of the Himalayas, and finds mention in the epic Mahabharata and other Hindu scriptures. Various Hindu scriptures refer to...

Ulysses (Italian: Ulisse) is a 1954 fantasy adventure film based on Homer's epic poem Odyssey. The film is directed by Mario Camerini, who co-wrote the screenplay...

Beverly Marsh in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel It, Lana Lang in Superman III, Kathy in the romantic-comedy...

structure of the Homeric poems, and their relation to the other epics of the Trojan cycle. These epics had in the meantime been made the subject of a work which...

studied, became a sage and a celebrated character of the Hindu Itihasa epics and Puranas. Ashtavakra is the author of the text Aṣṭāvakra Gītā, also known...

EPIC 204376071 is an M-type star in the constellation of Scorpius. Parallax measurements by the Gaia space observatory put the star at a distance of about...

personal statement about their broken relationships. Several Renaissance epics of the 16th century include lascivious sorceresses based on the Circe figure...

Carnival. He was accompanied by 35 Maranao leaders, two of them sang darangen (epics) of Bantugan for the two-day journey. After hearing parts of the Darangen...

references to Vanga in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, which is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India. The other epic, the Ramayana, mentions the kingdom...

in one scene – and was one of Hollywood's largest-scale, ancient world epics, made in the same spirit as The Robe, The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur....

Hawaiian religion, Wahieloa is a hero associated with the Kahaʻi and Laka epics. Variations of his name in other Polynesian languages include Wahieroa (Māori)...

referred to as "Alexandros", which is the more common name for him in Homeric epic. According to mythical tradition, he received this name (which means 'the...

A Toy Epic is a novel by Welsh author Emyr Humphreys. It was first published in 1958. The novel follows the story of three boys as they grow up in 'one...

The Epic is an EP by Canadian hip-hop duo Citizen Kane, released in 1997, by independent label Treehouse Records. The EP was nominated for Best Rap Recording...

person; a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form. In the Homeric epic, it plays two functions: one as an image of the dead; and, as the deceased...

conditions given by Epic Records, Jackson's record label, that it should not be released until after Thriller. As a result, Epic took legal action against...

central character in Ilango Adigal's Cilappatikaram, one of the Five Great Epics in Tamil literature. Cilappatikāram ("the Tale of an Anklet"), is the one...

Avatar is an American epic science fiction media franchise created by James Cameron, which began with the 2009 film Avatar. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment...

married to Dharani, an incarnation of Lakshmi, the wife of Vishnu. In the epic Ramayana, he challenges Rama to combat during the latter's homeward journey...

in both film and television spanned several genres, including historical epics, Westerns, and science fiction. He portrayed Cochise in the television series...

the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid (written between 29 and 19 BCE); and the Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Epic poetry appears to...

demonstrates a central paradox in Homer's epics that she aims to overcome in this book. She says that: the claim the epics make that women don't matter and the...

K2-24c also known as EPIC 203771098 c is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star K2-24 every 42 days. It has a density far lower than that of Saturn, which...

Franco-Italian epic poem La Prise de Pampelune. He was subsequently a major character (typically humorous) in Italian Renaissance romance epics, such as Morgante...

Life and History of the Epic King Gesar in Ladakh". In Honko, Lauri (ed.). Religion, myth, and folklore in the world's epics: the Kalevala and its predecessors...

that includes: the six Vedāṅgas (the auxiliary sciences in the Vedas), the epics (the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa), the Dharmasūtras and Dharmaśāstras (or Smritiśāstras)...

of the most important oral epics of Karnataka. Neelgaras, the professional singers of South Karnataka have kept the epic alive through centuries of performances...

in both Hindu and Buddhist traditions The Tamil epic Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, one of the five great Tamil epics of 5th century Chintamani, Karnataka, a town in...

co-produced war drama film directed by Theo Angelopoulos, loosely based on Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and starring Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern and Erland Josephson...

in Aetolia. He was famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Homer, and was also mentioned as one of the...

director and screenwriter, who is best known for directing the 1991 television epic Chanakya in which he also played the title role of the political strategist...

Sanskrit: गाण्डीव) is a divine bow of Arjuna, one of the Pandavas from the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The bow was made by Brahma. According to the Mahabharata, the...

Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 978-0-8426-0822-0. Edward Washburn Hopkins (1968). Epic Mythology. Biblo...

Divakaruni, published by Doubleday. The novel is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Draupadi's (Panchaali's) viewpoint, namely, that...

the same problems of dating oral traditions associated with the Homeric epics also apply to the Cypria. Many or all of the stories in the Cypria were...

the Hindu epics, Vidyādharas are described as essentially spirits of the air. They are described as doing different activities in the epics like gazing...

version of Gilgamesh") is a character who appears in Tablets I and II of the Epic of Gilgamesh and is mentioned in Tablet VII. She is often characterized as...

"Hendrik Coetzee", 1 January 2010, p. 78. Schnell, Caramie (2 June 2011). "Epics are born". vaildaily.com. Retrieved 13 October 2011. ""Watch Edge of the...

the library only ten contain expressive rhythmic literary works such as epics and myths. The Babylonian texts of the Ashurbanipal libraries can be separated...

Drums and Colours: An Epic Drama is a play by Derek Walcott. It was commissioned by the University of the West Indies for the opening of the first (and...

hero Giv. She is mentioned in several Persian epics including the Banu Goshasp Nama. There is an epic called Banu Goshasp-Nama composed of 900 verses...

supporting roles. One of his most-known roles was Benjamin Guggenheim in the epic historical romance film Titanic (1997). Ensign, as Michael Evans, began his...

via Kickstarter to produce a short film set in the Epic NPC Man universe. Baelin's Route: An Epic NPC Man Adventure premiered on YouTube on 9 May 2021...

Complete Collections, Marvel Ultimate Collections, and Marvel Complete Epics are large full-color trade paperback collections of previously published...

epics tended to portray psychologically or physically scarred warriors. Akira Kurosawa stylized and exaggerated death and violence in samurai epics....

was re-established in 2018. Along with RCA Records, Columbia Records, and Epic Records, it is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels. After being...

in 2018. The epic tales of Dede Korkut are some of the best-known Turkic dastans from among a total of well over 1000 recorded epics among the Turkic...

Avalokita. These legends are mentioned in Akitti Jataka and in Tamil Buddhist epics. There is no direct mention of the sage's name, or Agattiyam text, in Tolkappiyam...

following year under the title Ainu Shinyōshū (A Collection of the Ainu Epics of the gods). Although her patron Kindaichi and series editor Kunio Yanagita...

deliberately diminished by later bards (per the Analyst view of the Homeric epics' composition) because of their pro-Greek bias. Lattimore writes that Homer's...

next to LORD OF THE RINGS…destined to become among the greatest Fantasy epics of all time." The series was recommended by Ross Douthat during the New...

K2-24b also known as EPIC 203771098 b is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star K2-24 every 21 days. It has about the same density as Saturn, at 0.7103 g/cm3...

Pragjyotisha is a mythological kingdom that is mentioned in a multitude of Hindu epics. It came to be associated with the historical Kamarupa after Bhaskaravarman...

is mentioned in numerous Hindu texts such as the Puranas and the Hindu Epics. The stories related to Kashyapa in different texts are widely inconsistent...

among the masses; almost all significant Turkmen epics were condemned and banned by 1951–52. These epics would be rehabilitated back into public (and academic)...

(Translator: Philip Lutgendorf) Hanuman is mentioned in both the Hindu epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata. Hanuman is mentioned in the Puranas. The Shiva...

1967 by Anant Pai. Most of its comics are based on religious legends and epics, historical figures and biographies, folktales and cultural stories. The...

filmmakers in the history of Japanese cinema, having directed several jidaigeki epics such as the 1954 Academy Award-winning film Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto...

1983), is a manaschi (a reciter of the Kyrgyz epic of Epic of Manas). In November 2020, he recited the epic continuously in Ala-Too Square in Bishkek for...

EPIC Magazine (Previously known as Dennis the Menace and Gnasher's EPIC Magazine (2014–2016), 100% Official Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Megazine (2013–2014)...

biblical epic films mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of...

The plot is fictional, inspired by Turkish epics rather than historical reality. The show depicts the epic love story of Akkiz, who was orphaned through...

three are 8-, 11- and 12-syllable lines. Post-Vedic texts, such as the epics as well as other classical literature of Hinduism, deploy both linear and...

Mahabharat is an Indian Hindi-language epic television series based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata. The original airing consisted of a total...

Rigveda, Daksha is an aditya and is associated with priestly skills. In the epics and Puranic scriptures, he is a son of the creator-god Brahma and one of...

Dune (titled on-screen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay...

Happy" is a soul song. It was first recorded in 1967 by the Sensational Epics and was originally released on Warner Bros. Records. The song has also been...

Families Under One Roof (1986-1993), and supporting roles in the period epics Hur Jun (1999) and Jewel in the Palace (2003). Weeping Mountains (MBC, 1969)...

Jason and the Golden Fleece) is a 1963 epic fantasy adventure film loosely based on the 3rd century BC Greek epic poem The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius...

Epic Records Japan is a Japanese record label owned by Sony Music Labels Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Its founder was Shigeo Maruyama...

K2-3c, also known as EPIC 201367065 c, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star K2-3 every 24 days. It is 143 light-years away. It has a density of...

Greek: νόστος) is a theme used in Ancient Greek literature, which includes an epic hero returning home, often by sea. In Ancient Greek society, it was deemed...

has been described as one of Led Zeppelin's two most overtly progressive epics (the other being "Stairway to Heaven"). Page uses a guitar tuning of D–A–D–G–A–D...

Chongjun after the discovery of a manuscript in 1982. Like the Homeric epics, the written poem was likely preceded by an oral tradition dating back to...

in the United States on 21 December 1979. The film was released by Cult Epics in May 2015 on DVD and Blu-ray. While in Florence on business, Roman landscape...

poetical competition. One of the "cyclic poets", Arctinus composed the epics Aethiopis and Iliupersis or Sack of Troy, which are included in the Trojan...

film seemed to gain little attention. The science fiction-post-apocalyptic epics Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997), the latter of which Costner also...

Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a 2004 film directed and produced by Cult Epics founder Nico Bruinsma. Page is played by fetish model Paige Richards. The film...

Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India composed by Vyasa. At its heart lies the epic struggle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas...

Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is the latest iteration of Unreal Engine, developed by Epic Games. It was revealed in May 2020 and officially released in April 2022...

Hindu scriptures from the first millennium BCE. According to the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, he was a boy born with the horns of a deer who...

Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game The company was also responsible for the Epic Battles Trading Card Game, as well as the newer Afterworld game. Panini America...

performances of Nikollë Nikprelaj. It is also used to accompany Albanian epics and ballads. Çifteli vary in size, but are most often tuned to B3 and E4...

means of an unfulfillable longing. Other influences include older Persian epics, such as Vāmiq u 'Adhrā, written in the 11th century, which covers a similar...

Epic Ltd (from 2004 to 2007 Areeba Ltd, and then from 2007 to 2019 MTN Cyprus Ltd), is a Cyprus based telecommunications service provider owned by Monaco...

and structures, which fall into one of 4 categories: Temples of India, Epics of India, Puranas, and Saptalokas.[citation needed] Kunda Satyanarayana...

Fariburz (Persian: فَریبُرز) is an Iranian hero in Shahnameh, the national epic, of Greater Iran. He is son of Kay Kavus and brother of Siyâvash. He appears...

poem. Many Indian ethnic groups have their own epics, and many such as Tulu epics and the Pabuji epic have gained wider readership due to English translations...

British accents as patrician; conversely, American accents in Hollywood epics were often associated with liberty and piety in the mid-20th century. Several...

and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad. The concept remains a common literary...

English epics. The first category includes Shmuel-Bukh, a midrashic verse epic characterized by Sol Liptzin as the greatest Old Yiddish religious epic, and...

The Epic is a 615 ft (187 m) tall skyscraper in New York City. It was constructed from 2005 to 2007, and has 58 floors. It is tied with four other buildings...

Nazi and post-War eras, most notably Fridericus (1936), one in a series of epics about Frederick the Great. Horrido (1924) The Poacher (1926) Guilty (1928)...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) is a historical study of the Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson and winner...

write English epics for centuries following the publication of Paradise Lost and his later poetry. Milton was not the first to write an epic poem on a Christian...

Outside of the Shahnameh, he has been celebrated in other epics such as Faramarznameh. Another epic poem named Bizhannameh is dedicated to his adventures...

odyssey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer. Odyssey or The Odyssey may also refer to: Odyssey...

with "the sort of patrician name-dropping that mars so many historical epics" made the book a good novel rather than "a great one". Stan Persky, writing...

the vastly rich Hindu epics. It has now been superseded by motion pictures and television, which have reinvigorated the epics for the electronic age...

2009. Jackson has said the film was a welcome relief from his larger-scale epics. The storyline's combination of fantasy aspects and themes of murder share...

shot him with an arrow. Later legends (beginning with Statius's unfinished epic Achilleid, written in the first century CE) state that Achilles was invulnerable...

Eera Vizhi Kaaviyangal (transl. Teary-eyed epics) is a 1982 Indian Tamil-language film directed by B. R. Ravi Shankar, starring Sarath Babu, Pratap Pothen...

funerary lekythoi. Although commonly translated as "soul" today, in the epics of Homer, it meant "life" and did not have any connection to consciousness...

Ford. Bob Mastrangelo has called it "One of John Ford's greatest silent epics." The film possibly inspired the title for Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film Three...

translated Rogero in English) is a leading character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico...

Sindhu Kingdom is mentioned in Indian epics like the Mahabharata and Harivamsa Purana, often alongside the Sauvira kingdom, to be located on the banks...

was a Digambara Jain Acharya of 20th century who composed many Sanskrit epics. He initiated Acharya Vidyasagar in 1968 as a monk and 1972 as an Acharya...

built various cities like Lanka, Dvaraka, and Indraprastha. According to the epic Ramayana, the vanara (forest-man or monkey) Nala was the son of Vishvakarma...

is an English actor. He has appeared in films, such as Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), and Wolves at the Door (2016). He played the role of Cal Vandeusen...

for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films. He won...

Dryden and Alexander Pope, who used the form for their translations of the epics of Virgil and Homer, respectively. Major poems in the closed couplet, apart...

previously defined the area, leading it to be mentioned in Sangam Tamil epics. It is also commonly referred to as the MICO layout of Chennai city. Other...

2002. It was later released by Cult Epics on March 27, 2007 as a part of its Cinema of Death movie pack. Cult Epics later re-released the film as a double-feature...

Kannagi is a 1942 Indian Tamil-language epic film directed by R.S Mani based on one of The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature, Cilappatikaram. This...

important Hindu pilgrimage as well as cremation site referred to in the Hindu epics. The complex is a combination of numerous styles of architecture from the...

district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Connected to the Indian epic Ramayana, it is a place of religious, cultural, historical and archaeological...

the princess of Anga in the Hindu epic Ramayana. She is the wife of Rishyasringa. In northern recensions of the epic and later Indian literature, she is...

Khalkha-Mongolian heroic epic 1972 The language and collective farm poetry of the Buriat-Mongols of the Selenga region 1975 Mongolian epics I Mongolian epics II Mongolian...

The epic of Jangar or Jangar epic (Kalmyk: Җаңһр, romanized: Cañhr, [d͡ʒaŋɣər]; Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠩᠭᠠᠷ, Жангар, romanized: Jangar, [d͡ʒɑŋɢər]) is a traditional...

(including Ukrainian ones), from very early on, Mikołaj Rej called Ukrainian epics dumy. Some popular Polish dumy include "Duma o Żółkiewskim", "Duma o Chodkiewiczu"...

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 214 (P. Oxy. 214 or P. Oxy. II 214) is a fragment of an epic by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus...

Indian mythological television drama series on 9X based on the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata. It aired from 7 July 2008 to 6 November 2008. The series was...

Renaissance poet. His most famous work was Vazetje Sigeta grada, a historical epic on the Siege of Szigetvár (1566). He was born in Zadar, in 1515 or somewhere...

In the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, Prahasta (Sanskrit: प्रहस्त, IAST: prahasta, lit. he who has extended hands) was a powerful rakshasa warrior. He was the...

inscriptions contain "rhythmic and parallelistic passages" which resemble that of epics. Orkhon can also be transcribed as Orhun. Orkhon valley is where monuments...

Rosenberg, Donna (1994). World Mythology: An Anthology of the Great Myths and Epics. Lincolnwood, Chicago: National Textbook Company. pp. 196–200. ISBN 0-8442-5765-6...

liberal arts colleges, EPICS courses manage to encourage enrollment from students from outside the engineering program. EPICS was founded in the Fall...

Bhilni, Bhilani, and Shramana, is an elderly woman ascetic in the Hindu epic Ramayana. She is described as an ardently devoted woman who received Rama's...

Look up sa:गजासुर in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In Hindu epics, Gajasura (Sanskrit: गजासुर, lit. 'elephant demon') is a generic name given to an...

OCLC 57069331. Bibliography Mishra, Mahendra Kumar (2007). "Bhunjia Oral Epics". Oral Epics of Kalahandi. Chennai: National Folklore Support Centre. pp. 140–163...

a New Zealand actor. He is primarily known for portraying characters in epic fantasy works, such as Crixus in the TV series Spartacus, Allanon in The...

Martin classified A Song of Ice and Fire as "epic fantasy", and specifically named Tad Williams' high fantasy epic Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn as very influential...

system of justice plays a critical role in the film's narrative. AFI defines "epic" as a genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the...

state-owned organization. Out of fifteen books to his credit, nine are epics. The epics are ‘The Mother-Figure’, ‘The Departure of Time’, ‘ Declaration of...

deserts them to join the devas. In the post-Vedic period, particularly in the epics (c. 400 BCE – 400 CE) and the Puranic texts (c. 300 CE – 1200 CE), Kavya...

The Epic Series is a series of mountain bike stage races held around the world. The most prestigious race is the Cape Epic. The other five functions as...

is the eleventh studio album by the Jacksons, the band's first album for Epic Records and under the name "the Jacksons", following their seven-year tenure...

is based on the Greek author, Homer, who composed the two famous Greek epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Many authors continue to use this type of simile...

sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early 1920s such as his role...

released her debut extended play (EP), As She Pleases. Beer signed with Epic Records in August 2019 and released her debut studio album, Life Support...

Epic Colocotronis was an oil tanker that caught fire and sank near Puerto Rico in 1975. The sinking of the Greek-flagged vessel resulted in an oil spill...

Apple v. Epic Games is a pending United States Supreme Court case dealing with contempt charges in a civil lawsuit. The case extends from Epic Games v...

represented by 𒁹 or . It has many uses in cuneiform texts, including in the Epic of Gilgamesh. 𒁹 is a cuneiform sign. In Unicode, it is represented by U+12079...

languages. Like most epics, the plot of the Kutune Shirka is long and covers many events. This yukar is approximately 10,000 words long. The epic itself tells...

of ingenuity, courage, or strength. The original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor. Post-classical and modern...

stylized medieval setting. The genre also frequently incorporates Biblical epics such as Noah or Exodus: Gods and Kings. This sub-genre is distinct from...

mahākāvya: a 2016 book describing 'Rewaprasad Dwivedi's epics in the modern tradition of Sanskrit epics'. The United States Library of Congress has captured...

Epic Illustrated was a comics anthology in magazine format published in the United States by Marvel Comics. Similar to the US-licensed comic book magazine...

Sanskrit epics, this concern is omnipresent. This includes duties, rights, laws, conduct, virtues, and "right way of living". The Sanskrit epics contain...

Universal Epic Universe is a theme park located in Orlando, Florida, United States. Opening to the public on May 22, 2025, it is the third theme park,...

other national epics, including The Song of Roland and The Song of the Nibelungs. The book however differs from contemporary Western epics on account of...

Vijayendra Prasad as he felt it was an indicator of his caste. He cited Hindu epics Mahabharata and Ramayana as a source of his inspiration. He cites 1957 Telugu...

mentioned in the Vedas, Vamana is most commonly associated in the Hindu epics and Puranas with the story of taking back the three worlds (collectively...

De Liguoro in 1918. She appeared in leading roles in a number of Italian epics during the 1920s such as The Last Days of Pompeii. She later appeared in...

Press, pp. 315–339. Chadwick, Nora Kershaw; Zhirmunsky, Viktor (1969). Oral Epics of Central Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-14828-3. Hausman...

This is consistent with her role throughout the Homeric epics. In the manner of Homeric epic, the story begins in medias res (into the middle of things)...

Clockwork Orange" (PDF). imdb. Tinto Brass: Audio-commentary on the Cult Epics DVD of "Deadly Sweet" ("Col Cuore in Gola") DVD075 Sally K. Brass (not related):...

important theme in Homer's Odyssey.[citation needed] Every household in the epic is seen alongside xenia: Odysseus' house is inhabited by suitors with demands...

The dramatic stories depict mythologies, such as episodes from the Hindu epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, as well as local adaptations of cultural...

August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became an epic hero and one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the...

Avestan Hero and the Birth of the House of Rostam", The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran's National History, Brill, pp. 45–69, ISBN 978-90-04-28296-4, retrieved...

SNCF (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-08. SNCF was reorganized from three EPICs to a holding company effective 1 January 2020. "SNCF: Christophe Fanichet...

Retrieved 24 May 2017. Wiseman, Andreas (2 May 2018). "Roland Emmerich's WWII Epic 'Midway' Sets Sail With Woody Harrelson, Mandy Moore & AGC Studios — Cannes...

(extensions .bik and .bk2) for video developed by Epic Games Tools (formerly RAD Game Tools), a part of Epic Games. The format includes its own proprietary...

the grandfather. Beside Shahnameh, Gorgin also appears in other Iranian epics such as Faramarz Nama and Bahman Nama. Gorgin is one of the most famous...

First Man) is a 2023 Indian mythological action film inspired by the Hindu epic Ramayana. The film is directed and co-written by Om Raut, and produced by...

an ivy plant. His story survives only in Nonnus's early fifth century AD epic poem Dionysiaca. Cissus, together with another satyr Leneus, contested in...

pre-1973 hits in association with Buddah Records, but now distributed by Epic Records. All tracks are written by Rudolph Isley, O'Kelly Isley and Ronald...

Epic Horse is a historical fiction series by author Victoria Holmes. There are three books in the series each following a new heroine and setting. The...

Bitch Epic is the second studio album by Australia rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, Deborah Conway. The album was released in November 1993 and peaked...

The Itihasa-Purana, the Epic-Puranic narratives of the Sanskrit Epics (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and the Puranas, contain royal genealogies of the...

Vessels of the Sukanya class are named after notable women from Indian epics. The Sukanya class have large hulls, although they are lightly armed since...

colleagues Edward J. Coyle and William C. Oakes). In 2008 the EPICS program has announced EPICS High, an extension of the program's scope to integrate high...

partly incorporated in the Shahnameh, but once also surviving as independent epics, such as the Garšāspnāma mentioned in the Tārikh-e Sistān, and the Ketāb...

political confusion. He was assimilated to Nergal at some point. In the epic that is given the modern title Erra, the writer Kabti-ilani-Marduk, a descendant...

(2010). He has starred in numerous television dramas, notably the period epic The Great King, Sejong (2008), the family comedy What Happens to My Family...

on its storyline are almost entirely confined to a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the chrestomathy attributed to an unknown Proklos (possibly...

the Mali Empire, and a character in the oral tradition of the Epic of Sundiata. In the Epic of Sundiata, Naré Maghann Konaté (also called Farako Manko Farakonken...

American Epic is a documentary media franchise based upon the first recordings of roots music in the United States during the 1920s and their cultural...

composed in the Śārdūlavikrīḍita metre (a metre commonly used in Saṃskṛta epics), and also contains the word śārdūlavikrīḍitam. As the great sage Aṣṭāvakra...

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. p. xx. Honko, Lauri (2011). Textualization of Oral Epics. Walter de Gruyter. p. 318....

Encyclopedia. p. 448. Valmiki; Vyasa (19 May 2018). Delphi Collected Sanskrit Epics (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. p. 2449. ISBN 978-1-78656-128-2. Motilal...

Biebuyck, The African heroic epic, in Felix J. Oinas (ed.), Heroic Epic and Saga. An Introduction to the World's Great Folk Epics, Bloomington—Londres, Indiana...

Mexican actor and producer. He played Esqueleto in Nacho Libre, Mr. Tumnus in Epic Movie and the cashier in Wild Hogs. He worked in a theater company in Tijuana...

implication that these four plays are Shakespeare's epic, and that Prince Hal, who later becomes Henry V, is the epic hero. (This group may also be referred to...

Holdren and Steve Brodie. The film is a reworking of Allan Dwan's 1929 screen epic The Iron Mask, an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel The...

Kushavati was a city in Kosala Kingdom as per epic Ramayana. The king of Kosala Lord Rama installed his son Lava at Sravasti on the northern part of the...

at the invitation of Leopold I to install the statue of the hero of the epic. Thembavani has over 100 references to events and teachings in the Bible...

Epic Series and was once inspired by the pinnacle event of it, the Cape Epic. Alongside the Cape Epic and The Pioneer in New Zealand, the Swiss Epic is...

lost ancient Greek epic poem written by Panyassis of Halicarnassus in the 5th century BC. It was one of the most significant epics of its time, spanning...

kingdom, is a mythological kingdom that is mentioned in a multiple of Hindu epics which later came to be associated with modern-day Tezpur in central Assam...

Aristotle among three broad categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic, and epic. Lyric poetry is one of the earliest forms of literature. Much lyric poetry...

feminine epic poem titled Aurora Leigh. Taylor posits that Browning began this process with the structure of her poem, "While earlier epics like the Aeneid...

2022, HotNewHipHop described the tour as "arguably still one of the most epic tours in hip-hop history". There have been rumors of a possible sequel for...

such as the epic Paradise Lost by John Milton, is stichic. A more contemporary (1790's) example is Joanna Baillie's "Hay making". Greek epic, in dactylic...

lit. Digimon Championship) is a life simulation video game developed by Epics and published by Bandai Namco Games for the Nintendo DS, as part of the...

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Vrishasena (Sanskrit: वृषसेन, romanized: Vṛṣasena) was the eldest son of the warrior Karna. Along with his father, he fought...

The epic of Devnarayan has been classified under the category of martial epics. According to tradition he was in Malaseri Dungari, Asind city of Bhilwara...

Five Great Epics in Tamil literature. She is described as a chaste woman who stays with her husband Kovalan despite his adultery. The epic further describes...

entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Elvis Presley's film debut, Love Me Tender...

Parama Kamboja kingdom was mentioned in the epic Mahabharata to be on the far north west along with the Bahlika, Uttara Madra and Uttara Kuru countries...

notably participating in the Battle of the Ten Kings. In the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata (200 BCE to 300 CE), a larger region of Indosphere is encompassed...

(Russian: Илья Муромец), also known as The Sword and the Dragon (US) and The Epic Hero and the Beast (UK), is a 1956 Soviet fantasy film by noted fantasy director...

شاهنامهٔ رشیدا) is an illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. It contains 738 pages with 93 miniatures in Isfahan School...

retelling of the Mahābhārata from the perspective of Bhīma, departing from the epic's traditional mythological framework by rejecting divine intervention in favour...

Epic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane. Set in the 1930s, it tells the story of brothers Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert...

called doration (δοράτιον). The word doru is first attested in the Homeric epics with the meanings of "wood" and "spear". Homeric heroes hold two dorata...

The cuneiform sign É, is a common-use sign of the Amarna letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). its most...

Gears) is a media franchise centered on a series of video games created by Epic Games, developed and managed by The Coalition, and owned and published by...

films, the island has been a common location for filming ancient historical epic films such as Gladiator and Troy. Against All Odds: The Quest for Malta (2004)...

(Japanese: 未完の対局, Hepburn: Mikan no taikyoku) is a 1982 Japanese-Chinese epic film co-production directed by Junya Sato and Duan Jishun (段吉順). It won the...

Ravana in Lanka and regains Sita. "Taraka (Thataka)". Encyclopedia for Epics of Ancient India. Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology. Retrieved...

Street (2013), the religious epic Silence (2016), the gangster epic The Irishman (2019), and the historical anti-western epic Killers of the Flower Moon...

American mythology–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and co-produced...

– c. 1690) was a Bengali poet and translator who wrote several Bengali epics and also translated some Persian manuscripts. Hakim was born in Babupur...

and his descendants Bhagadatta and Vajradatta are first mentioned in the epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana in the sections that were composed in the first...

the life of Agrippina the Younger, and was part of the move towards Roman epics in early Italian cinema. Adele Bianchi Azzarili Cesare Moltini [fr] Maria...

literary works in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and the tragedy Medea. Modern adaptations of the myth of...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is an American independent nonprofit research center established in 1994 to protect privacy, freedom of...

commedie sexy all'italiana and erotic films, but also starring in sword epics such as The Adventures of Hercules and in some horror films. In 1987 Lamberto...

The cup is described in the Iliad, and possibly appeared elsewhere in the Epic Cycle. Despite the brevity of its appearance in the Iliad, the cup was the...

Yakut and Dolgan heroic epics. The term Olonkho is used to refer to the entire Yakut epic tradition as well as individual epic poems. An ancient oral tradition...

(originally titled Redwall: The Adventure Game, Redwall: The Warrior Reborn, and Epic Tales of Redwall during development) is a series of six episodic indie adventure...