The battle itself I have described from the epos of Pentaur, the national epic of Egypt.
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If it be an epos, the actors in it are not men and women, but ferrets-with here and there, of course, a stray rabbit, on whose brains they may feed.
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Charles Kingsley
The very title, Alexiad suggests rather an epos-a poem in prose-than a serious historical work, and emphasizes its epideictic tendency.
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