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idealization of heroic poetry
- In heroic poetry
…to a dimly defined “heroic age” when a generation of superior beings performed extraordinary feats of skill and courage. The heroic age varies in different native literatures. The epics of Homer created in the 8th century bc centre on a war with Troy that may have occurred about 1200…
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