Sentence examples for oral epic from inspiring English sources

The "Hamzanama" was once the most popular oral epic of the Indo-Islamic world.

An oral epic tradition usually continues for as long as the nation remains largely illiterate.

The prime examples of the oral epic are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Many poetic genres flourished, including the lyric, the elegy, and the romantic destān (an oral epic poem).

At this degenerate stage, the oral epic soon dies out if it is not written down or recorded.

Projects to date include Annotation Studio, Comédie Francaise Registers, Cultura, Berliner sehen, Arab Oral Epic, among many others.

Oral epics are full of epithets, like "Wind-Footed," "Ox-Eyed," and "Breaker-of-Horses".

Oral epics formed the main literary genre among the largely illiterate Kazakhs until the 19th century.

They may relate to local family histories or to elaborate Dogon oral epics of ethnic origin and destiny.

Earlier surviving written works (on stone or paper) are mostly official documents; and no oral epics were written down until the late 1880s.

The New Yorker, May 21 , 1979P. 31 The Crumps, Brodie and Beryl, have returned from sabbatical in Bulgaria where Brodie studied national oral epics, believed lost or just forbidden.