The Epic: A Very Short Introduction

by Anthony Welch

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatness and win lasting fame. These sprawling heroic tales convey the grandeur and pain of human life. They have been preserved for millennia in Sumerian clay tablets, Egyptian papyrus rolls, fragmentary manuscripts salvaged from European monasteries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198795122
• ISBN13: 9780198795124
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages