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Too many works included?

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The proposed list of epics is getting longer and longer. Are these all truly epics? For example, is The Battle of Marathon by Elizabeth Barrett Browning truly an epic? Pete unseth (talk) 01:22, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I will be recording the audio for this article for the Spoken Wikipedia Community. If anyone else is already working on it, kindly let me know to avoid duplication. A response would be appreciated. Adilalishah 16:38, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 23 February 2025

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. There is a clear consensus in opposition to the proposed move, and no reason to expect that further relisting of this discussion would yield any different outcome. BD2412 T 03:29, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]


– An "epic poem" is usually called an epic, as in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Homeric epics (part of the Epic Cycle). I have never heard anyone call these "epic poems", and ngrams unequivocally support this. The three aforementioned epics form the foundation of Western literature and have significantly influenced Western culture, so by historical and academic significance alone, it is the clear primary topic. Epic (disambiguation) lists one other primary-topic contender, epic film, a genre that was specifically derived from epics in the classical literary sense; no other topic is anywhere near these two in terms of notability. Per WP:NOTDICT, we can disregard the adjective meaning "heroic or grand", and even that was derived from the literary genre as well. Epic is widely understood to mean an ancient long poem, and it is the first definition you get if you look up the term on any major dictionary (notice how "epic poem" is not a valid dictionary definition). InfiniteNexus (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.