• I love epic poems because they are simultaneously godly and human — they reveal the divinity within man through larger than life stories with visceral emotional vignettes, evoking wonder at the majesty yet reflecting a familiar reflection of our inner psyches
• Scale: epic scale, but the fragments remind us of our humanity
• Channeling the divine through heroes
• Heroes' struggles reflecting our own internal dilemmas
• Epic poetry refers to a long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds in an elevated style
• Instinct for imitation in Aristotle's Poetics
  • Inevitable product of the human mind
  • Thus, it is also a reflection
• Philosophy and wisdom in poetry from the perspective of Horace and Aristotle
• Stories are a mirror reflecting ourselves

related

• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Divine Comedy
• Mahabharata