epopee

American  

[ep-uh-pee, ep-uh-pee] / ˈɛp əˌpi, ˌɛp əˈpi /

Also epopoeia

noun

1. an epic.

2. epic poetry.

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epopee British  

/ ˈɛpəʊˌpiː, epɔpe, ˌɛpəˈpiːə /

noun

1. an epic poem

2. epic poetry in general

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Etymology

Origin of epopee

1690–1700; < French épopée < Greek epopoiía, equivalent to épo ( s ) epos + poi ( eîn ) to make + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

It was not by a deviation from his earlier nature that Zeus was confounded with Pan; he was Pan by birth; and if the epopee and the drama show us only a personal Zeus, it is because by their very nature they could and should see him only under this aspect, and had nothing to obtain from the impersonal Zeus, although in this form he was as old as in the other.

From Project Gutenberg

With tender emotion he feels how an increasing sympathy mingles in his pitiful smile the more he gets to know of them, these two superannuated types: Don Quixote, the simple-minded, would-be hero, still lagging on the scene long after the epopée of chivalry has departed in the twilight of mediæval mysticism; and the ape, the phantom from the vanishing animal world, over whose hairy human face already falls the dawn of the birthday of the first man.

From Project Gutenberg

Epopee, ep′o-pē, Epopœia, ep-o-pē′ya, n. epic poetry: an epic poem.

From Project Gutenberg

This stupendous work is divided into five parts, entitled respectively 'Fantine,' 'Cosette,' 'Marius,' 'L'Idylle Rue Plumet et l'Épopée Rue St. Denis,' and 'Jean Valjean.'

From Project Gutenberg

It is quite in accord with such a view of history that the machinery of this voluminous epopee is not set in motion by a single conspicuous protagonist.

From Project Gutenberg