Anyhow, my ears won't have to ache any longer, listening to that old epic of his.

Why, then, his latterday fondness for the old epics, where everything is set out squarely, front and centre?

Plus, the old little epic here and there.

Main spiritual and philosophical lesson called "Purvaranga" (First of the two major part)based on old epics.

However, the new genre turned the old epic upside down about the meaning, setting the stories in more familiar situations, to ridiculize the traditional epics.

It is one of the oldest epics about a Woman warrior in Persian literature.

Panay boasts of the Hinilawod as its oldest and longest epic.

"You've been reading the old epics again," Sarissa said.

"I've been thinking about the old epics, Nonnus," she said.

Now he planned to read the very oldest epic of all, the Sumerian myth about Gilgamesh.