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Tragic_Carpet_Ride t1_iydjb8w wrote

An epic is a specific kind of long poem written in meter. None of the books you mentioned are epics. Beowulf and The Odyssey are epics.

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Adventurous-Chef-370 t1_iydmx8s wrote

While that is the original definition, there are so many new ways to tell stories that I think it should be expanded. There are certainly epic movies, games, and novels in my opinion.

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