- 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