EPIC

= a long narrative poem recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero

• 9 BC Homer, Iliad and Odyssey

• 19 BC Virgil, Aeneid

• c. 750 AD Anon, Beowulf

• 1482 AD Boiardo, Orlando Innamorato

• 1532 AD Ariosto, Orlando Furioso

• 1581 AD Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered

• 1590 AD Spenser, The Faerie Queene

• 1667 AD Milton, Paradise Lost

CONFLICT

• physical
  
  
• mental
  
  
• emotional
  
  
• moral