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Epic Epopee Ep Uh Pee Noun Poetry Poem Greek Epopoiia

Front epopee \EP-uh-pee\
Back noun
Epic poetry or an epic poem.

[From Greek epopoiia, from epos (song) + poiein (to make).]

"The struggle between the sons of the moon and those of the sun, between the Kauravas and the Pandavas form the subject of the great Hindu epopee, the Mahabharata." - Edouard Schure; Krishna & Orpheus; Kessinger Publishing; 1995.

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