# Epic & Myth

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Category: Literature
Slides: 26
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:33.369Z
Tags: literature, epic, and, myth

## Summary

Almost every culture that has produced a literature has produced an epic — a long, formal, poetic account of how its people came to be where they are. Key sections include: Epic & Myth.; Opening What an epic is.; Chapter I Gilgamesh.; Chapter II The Iliad.; Chapter III The Odyssey.; Chapter IV The Aeneid.; Chapter V Mahabharata.; Chapter VI Ramayana.; Chapter VII Beowulf.; Chapter VIII Norse — Eddas and Sagas..

## Slide Outline

1. Epic & Myth.
2. Opening What an epic is.
3. Chapter I Gilgamesh.
4. Chapter II The Iliad.
5. Chapter III The Odyssey.
6. Chapter IV The Aeneid.
7. Chapter V Mahabharata.
8. Chapter VI Ramayana.
9. Chapter VII Beowulf.
10. Chapter VIII Norse — Eddas and Sagas.
11. Chapter IX Shahnameh.
12. Chapter X Sundiata.
13. Chapter XI Popol Vuh.
14. Chapter XII The Tale of the Heike.
15. Chapter XIII Mythological systems compared.
16. Chapter XIV Joseph Campbell.
17. Chapter XV Lévi-Strauss on myth.
18. Chapter XVI Oral-formulaic theory.
19. Chapter XVII Christian epic.
20. Chapter XVIII Joyce, Walcott, H.D., Atwood.
21. Chapter XIX Where the form went.
22. Chapter XX Twenty-five.
23. Chapter XXI Watch & read.
24. Chapter XXII Why read epic.
25. Chapter XXIII How to read the originals.
26. The end of the deck.

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