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An interesting look at a new genre: the Twitter story. In this article it is compared to epic poetry.

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, and Trajan will be the major Roman emperors of this century. Poetry: De Re Rustica by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella is a didactic work about agriculture. Columella advises switching from grain to vines, "for none in Italy can remember when seeds increased fourfold."

Jessica Levitt's List: Gr. 9 Epic Works

The setting of the Táin Bó Cúailnge has traditionally been identified as the first century A.D. The earliest extant manuscript of any version of the work was written in the early twelfth century in the great monastery of Clonmacnoise overlooking the Shannon River. Sometime between these two dates, the Táin Bó Cúailnge came into existence.

"Life of King Gesar" is the Tibetan people a heroic epic collectively created. It was originally more than a thousand years of Tibetan folklore of oral literature, is now finishing a book. More than 120 book, more than 100 million line of poetry, more than 2000 million words, is the world's longest epic, the international community was called "Homer the East."

Chanson de Roland (summary)

Kunadalakesi is one of the famous five epics of the ancient literature of Tamil Nadu.

chanson de roland

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