Epic

The Texas Rangers investigation is one of at least five announced investigations targeting EPIC or EPIC City. Those include investigations led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas State Board of Securities and the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.

The book was an epic in four volumes.

These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!

Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.

Beowulf is an epic poem.

The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.

The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations

China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]

The after-prom party was truly epic.

You made an epic mistake.

Then tell him his daughter's an epic shag.

But the absolute isolation which marks the narrative of the Bundehesh, not a trace of any analogous record being found either in the Zend-Avesta or in the Epic tradition, as collected by Firdouzi, Ḫamza, and the other writers of the Musselman epoch, is of a nature to inspire great doubts in regard to its character as a genuine Iranian legend.

Egil’s Saga, I think, one cannot at present obtain at all, and the Saga of the Laxdale men I only possess in Latin. These and the rest are truly Epic narratives, the Odysseys of a ruder race than the Achæans.

We shall speak, therefore, of the Epic tradition as an already established fact, and we shall discuss it only from the point of view of the fifth and fourth centuries in Athens.

Every δῆμος [dêmos] had one or more towns (πόλεις [poleis]), and accordingly for the complete description of the land, usual in the Epic phraseology, both expressions are commonly united […]

The first syllable is lengthened, as the antistrophic line […] shows, an Epic scansion in accordance with the Epic phrase […]

It commonly signifies the indigenous religion(s) of South Asia, now increasingly called by the Epic term Sanātana Dharma (eternal religion).

He calls for a special kind of instrument, bearing a name which smacks of the Norse Epics—a “Nibling.”

Compare Milton’s Epics with the other great Epics of the world.

The “Idylls of the King,” more of a complete Epic than any of the great Epics, showed how high is that aim which every commonwealth of men is bound to propose to itself; […]

The Epic has a continuous history from the Mycenaean era to the making of the Iliad.

This conciliatory approach to the Gītā is a clear enough indication of its being influenced by the world of the Epics to which it belongs.