Epics that attempt to imitate these like Virgil's 'The Aeneid' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' are known as literary, or secondary, epics.

No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic.

The naghara is described in the Early Middle Age Azerbaijani literary epic, "Kitabi Dada Gorgud" (Book of Dede Korkut) (The Book of my Grandfather).

Cendrars became an important part of the artistic community in Montparnasse; his writings were considered a literary epic of the modern adventurer.

Panyassis, however, is a much later poet who worked in writing: the story is presumably a way of saying that Panyassis, in his literary epic on the life of Heracles, plagiarised the work of Creophylus.

This may simply be a shortcoming of the difficult conversion of literary epic to the stage.

"homeland roots" or "homeland generation") is the Udmurt literary national epic.

CREATING literary epics for the stage is nothing new.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1873) introduced blank verse (Amitrakshar Chhanda), literary epics and sonnets in Bengali language.

The traditional material from which the literary epics were drawn treats the Mycenaean Bronze Age culture from the perspective of Iron Age and later Greece.